skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Posted a while ago, and some discussion already at ...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585058
What Apple and Steve Jobs get that eInk, Sony Reader, and Amazon/Kindle didn't, is that interactivity is key! When you enable fast, responsive interactive search and navigation, you increase the value of information by an order of magnitude. Apple's new device is going to be multi-touch, and it will own!

Apple will introduce the device at a higher price point than netbooks and the Kindle. This will enable them to partner with Amazon, and it will also fit Apple's usual strategy of high margins for premium design, integration, and usability.
The way I read it, it has to do with whether you allow a demonstrated flaw in reasoning in one's area of expertise compromise your respect for that expert. A very interesting topic, to me at least.
Why would someone prefer this bookmarking service over Delicious.com ??
Reader macros?
Indecently, you've exhibited leadership traits that surpass many CEOs'. That's what I love about the military, builds the best leaders you've ever seen.

Thanks for the story.
Thanks for your question. There's nothing that prevents the general technique from working on a stream. I guess every sensible implementation of streams supports folds.
An interesting paper related to this:

Discrete Fluids: http://library.lanl.gov/cgi-bin/getfile?15-16.pdf
Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps
If I were in the same situation as he was in, being bullied by EasyList and ABP, I probably would have done the same thing.
Correct, but to compare equivalent goods, $100k would get you much more land 100 years ago than now. The point of my comment was to say that while yes, the standard of living has gone up considerably in the past century, $1 in 1909 was 'worth' more to 1909 citizens than $1 today.

I didn't mean to imply technology isn't wealth, just that you had to factor it out for my point to be made.
As someone living in a foreign country, T-mobile's UMA feature is a huge win. Their international bberry data rates are great as well.
I'm not really sure what he has to apologize for. He didn't even really need to post this article or the email.
‘Two cultures’ turns 50
Sorry. The part of OP's post I have never seen was that "backlash" part, not the "meritocratic and egalitarian" part. I see now how that could have been misinterpreted because my manual string extraction was off by 62 characters.

But thanks smacking me with 2 dictionary links. That oughta fix it.
Cocoa: Core Data and Plug-ins
really? isn't the startup community supposed to be more anti-establishment and not worry about paper credentials as much as, say, a large corporation or government organization?
The ice-age baby from the deep freeze
It's no coincidence that startups start around universities, because that's where smart people meet. It's not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companies spring up around them. They could sing campfire songs in the classes so long as admissions worked the same.
-Paul Graham. "How to Start a Startup," March 2005.
Of course I'd want a compiler and bash in my iPod Touch! But that won't sell any large number of phones.

(Netbooks have keyboards and much larger screens. Different niche.)
Because delicious is daunting, complicated, and scary.

It's also not really "bookmarks" and more of a place to put foraged links.
Because sometimes, you just want to put bookmarks on the web for yourself. Delicious leaves something to be desired as a bookmark organizer. For organizing things for myself, I'd rather have folders than tags.
I think you need to have a running average or debouncing of this kind of feedback. No relationship is so consistent that you'll get the same feeling after a meeting every time.

I agree it's a solid rule - that could be applied to activities not just people. Good videogames, for example, might be judged by this rubric.
Gladwell has isolated the correct reason in his stories but he doesn't present it directly. What really beats Goliath is when Goliath has to face something he isnt used to or prepared for and is put off balance. Pitino nails it when he talks about the "rush moment" or "rush state" Getting them out of their game or off balance is whats effective, outworking them is not as much.

The reason, for example, that every basketball team doesn't press is because if a team is prepared for the press and more talented than the pressing team its relatively easy to beat it. On the same note if two teams both press each other the talent rises to the top.

Look at running for example, how do you beat someone who is faster than you in a distance race? Get them to run your race, throw in surges etc... If you're faster but they have more endurance: box them in, slow the race down, make it come down to a kick where you're favored. Like the press if they simply know they're faster than you and prepared for it they should just take off from the gun but they often dont, especially against someone they've never run against before and surprise often wins out.

So while its nice to write a story about effort and it makes for a good read this article should be more about keeping an opponent off balance than it should have been about effort winning out
> that seems unfair

LOL welcome to life, buddy.
Yes, because they will have distinct uses.
EU to ICANN: ditch the US gov ties and become more global
I have a g1 and I find the extra thickness to be justified for the keyboard.
Yeah, it's damn near impossible to work for (or with!) people you don't like. I have limited life experience, but what I've learned definitely fits with #1.
That might be true but I can't see Apple developing a device to sell primarily from someone else's marketplace. They are leaving a huge portions of the profits on the table.

Granted Amazon has a stellar relationship with publishers, and Apple would want to take advantage of this. But we're talking about a company that started its own retail wing when everyone was fleeing from retail like it was the plague, just because it wanted to control the full customer experience. They would not give an inch if they had skin in the ebook game.
N.Y. Times to File Notice It Will Close Boston Globe
What is dishonest about the current systems? And what makes it look like an opinion system could be honest? Does it seem like people are purposely misrepresenting their position in these kinds of rating systems? Everyone does understand the simple rating system, which is why it works and is popular. I think there is a perceptual accuracy, and not necessarily an absolute accuracy, to the way people interpret the data because they are looking for absolutes in a system which can not inherently contain absolutes, as it is based on opinions.

Discussion of the Netflix Prize is a good place to mine data on the accuracy of rating systems and improve them.
We also received a similar spam like email and were very confused about what was going on. Initially, they just wanted to make sure a representative of the company could attend the event, because otherwise you're not even eligible to win.

Since then i have emailed them questions, mostly just to find out when the winners will be announced, and have received no responses at all. They seem to keep dragging this out, claiming we're "on a short list to win" but then adding additional rounds of cuts, and now this voting.

It's like all they want is to get more press and publicity for themselves, at the expense of the companies nominated. If I need to be at this thing next week (a Friday and Saturday) I need to plan around it! They can't expect to let me know if I'm a winner, just a few days in advance, and think i will drop everything to speak at their event.

I think it's incredibly unprofessional and very selfish how this is being run.
quite engrossing. i read and skimmed. lots of great pictures.

this is the opposite experience to blogs posts that run out of steam halfway and then end with some dumb conclusion. well done shamusyoung. wish there were more of these kind of project reports on hn.
does that imply that certain people are held to a higher standard due to where they went to college? that seems unfair both to those people (who have unreasonably elevated expectations)

What makes those higher expectations "unreasonable"? All else being equal, I'd expect the quality of an average grad from Stanford or MIT to be higher than the average grad of some random state school. Of course, there is always more information to consider -- the work you've actually done is far more important than where you went to school, and there are great people at unknown schools (and mediocre people at top places). But in the absence of more information about a candidate, I think marginally higher expectations for grads of top schools is justified.
A lot of knowledgeable people (including doctors who very well know it's inert) use homeopathic treatments instead of placebos. Why? In some states in the US, placebo treatments cannot be purchased without a prescription. Homeopathic treatments are almost always available for a simple purchase.

Reference:
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4151
While it's just an implementation detail, some languages (off the top of my head: Chicken Scheme and Lua) can't use that many variables in their tail-call implementations.
The iPhone is really really shitty at doing the one thing it should be great at-- making phone calls. An iPhone-heavy day in Seattle for me results in 3-7 dropped calls. Seriously.

I dunno whether this is Apple or AT&T-- I assume the latter. Given that I'm at the end of my contract, I will leap towards the first smartphone I find that doesn't suck on another network.
No offense was intended, I simply did not parse your reaction to what you quoted.
Bruce Schneier on Mathematical Illiteracy
The 5-star rating system is exactly the same as asking someone "would you use/watch/go/buy-from this product/place/movie/business again?". You ask a few people and you consolidate their answers into a aggregate perception and then make your own decision based on that. Then you go there (or not) and make your own judgement and add your input to the pool. This is exactly useful for the intended purpose and audience.
I'm sorry, but no. Why should I have to?

It's hardly my fault if governments, regulators and companies cannot build enough power plants.
Just for the record I wasnt suggesting Easylist 2 needs to apologise: the developer of ABP is the one at fault :)
Introversion, the UK games company that did Uplink, Defcon, and Darwinia, has been working on a game called Subversion that has procedurally generated cities, from terrain mapping to placing desk chairs in the offices of the buildings. http://www.introversion.co.uk/subversion/
i can replicate that.

he's using obfuscated URLs from his site to dynamically add the google banners. ABP apparently doesn't catch that.

this is just wrong. there is no other way of putting ig.

there are the URLs that ABP shows:

http://hackademix.net/EGBxd3Vx;dCI,d39/;d3x1Y2l,;dHlzcWR5;f3...;
http://hackademix.net/HHR9f3d9;eHlxdWQy;cnloM0tP;dyhMdmso;J0...;
http://hackademix.net/RCwlJy8l;ICEpLTxq;KiEwayEj;KyYMFnwm;fw...;
http://hackademix.net/UDc/Pzc8;NTE0I343;fjQ/JTI8;NTM8OTM7;fj...;
http://hackademix.net/WSk4Pjw4;PWt3PjY2;PjU8KiA3;PTA6OC0w;Nj...;
http://hackademix.net/egobHR8b;HkhUHRUV;HRYfCQMU;HhMZGw4T;FR...;
http://hackademix.net/ewsaHB4a;H0lVHBQU;HBceCAIV;HxIYGg8S;FB...
My favourite Atwood screw-up of all time was on the recent stack overflow podcast. Joel referred to a digital clock on the wall, which Jeff corrected him, and said it was an analog clock. Joel did his customary 'Jeff said what?' pause, and then pointed out "I'm pretty sure I can see digits on that clock, so it's digital." Jeff was still not immediately convinced.

That said, I enjoy listening to the podcast, even if sometimes because I get to laugh at the things Jeff said. But as someone else said here, it's hard to be too down on someone who was a key factor in making a site like Stack Overflow. He also makes some good points. Sometimes.

But objectively, about 90% of the time I agree with Joel when the two have a disagreement. Guess that means I shouldn't apply for a job at Fog Creek :-).
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That's funny, I see just the opposite. Apple, as I recall, barely breaks even on the music part of the iTunes store, and makes all their money on iPods. Has that changed?

Selling a high-end, upscale device that plugs into Amazon's online sales sounds like a perfect fit for Apple.
see my post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592788
Why Comcast has to worry about Hulu
LimeWire Chairman Assures Congress: Privacy Safeguards Are in Place
The basic problem is one of power. A large corporate entity can muster greater legal resources than a small startup to defend patents, even those that will never be developed into products.

Perhaps a firmer "use it or lose it" deadline could shift the balance of power, and streamline the process of patent challenges.
Hopefully Apple won't forget that battery life is also key.
Good point, I didn't think about that.

If you can't write well because you are just sloppy and don't care, then I think it's your own fault... but, of course, that might not be the case if you have a learning problem (no, that doesn't make you stupid, just a different skillset).

I know what was done here is that students with recognised learning difficulties (dyslexia, for example) get extra time if they take a long time to get their answers on paper.. or, on request, someone to read or write for them, which gives them a fair shot in comparison to everyone else.
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Do they really want to be in the eBook game, or are eBooks just a way to sell lots and lots of stylish $600 Apple hardware?

An Apple touchpad device would also be a planner, a media viewer, a household remote control, a communication device, a gaming device, and a platform for running App Store apps. (1) eBooks would only be a small fraction of what it would be about, as opposed to music on iPods, which are more-or-less about music.

(1) - The iPhone is all these things as well, but form-factor is significant. There are times when you want more screen real-estate and can do with less portability.
Read up on Pixel Qi. Their technology gives you 5X power efficiency, but preserves interactivity.
The 2nd edition of this (wonderful) book is due out in August.

http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781430223979
Ruby on Rails on Google App Engine
Wouldn't such a move require informing the parent? Besides, the article describes how the doctor went out of their way to praise the virtues of the medicine provided. If helping with a condition has the side-effect of spreading dangerous memes (yes, homeopathy can be dangerous if appropriate treatment is foregone in its favour) from the mouth of a respected expert, then that is one hell of a side-effect that the parent should be at least made aware of.
They've been possible since animated gifs.
What I found interesting, is that he did not include Rick Pitino's pro coaching career.

I dug this up googling 'Pitino Knicks full court press':

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/14/sports/pro-basketball-piti...

"Virtually everything that could go wrong for New York today did go wrong. The Knicks were outrebounded, 55-34. They shot 38.5 percent from the field. Johnny Newman, their second-leading playoff scorer, shot 0 for 8 from the field and did not score. And Chicago had little trouble dissecting New York's full-court press."

This correlates with the other comment about the press not working in the NBA because the point guards are too good. The press did work for awhile for Pitino when he coached the Knicks, but evidently the other teams eventually developed counter measures that worked. He also coached the Celtics with an overall losing record. I'm not sure how much he pressed with the Celtics.

I suppose the overall moral is that unconventional tactics work for awhile, but if the opponent is also willing to innovate eventually skill, strength and other traits will prevail. The full court press is predicated on out working your opponents, but no one in the history of the NBA worked harder than Michael Jordan, who had some talent and skill to go with it.
Now now, let's not go too far.
If this post weren't by Linus, would it make the front page?

It would be nice to see Hacker News remain about ideas rather than personalities.
True, but the confidence of the patient is instrumental in placebo effectiveness. If the doctor has a long-term relationship with the patient, then they can have it both ways. They can play up the efficacy of the "medicine" then educate the patient on subsequent visits.
Once Again: 1981 Video Predicts The Death Of Print Newspapers
I'm guessing Apple has something in the bag for all those early adopters whose two year contracts are about to end.
From the article: "Lenat did not give Eurisko any advice or steer the program in any particular strategic direction."

I think this is misleading given other sources, e.g. "In the morning Lenat would cull the designs and help it along. He credits about 60 percent of the results to himself, and about 40 percent to EURISKO." from http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Chapter_5.html
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More ways to share your Google Latitude location
as much as I'd like to believe in this - there's no data or anything that makes this post seem credible besides "anonymous sources"
It's better to modify your site to accept only modified usernames/email adresses (e.g you must always login by adding a - to your username) for the user accounts that are more important (has more rights) then normal accounts.
A hacker will have problems bruteforcing these accounts..
Geek business myths
They are different skillsets, but they aren't mutually exclusive. I work in a company which has dual career paths - technical and people management. At the bottom of the career ladder, you have OK programmers with OK people skills. This is the minimum you need to work effectively within a large team. Over time you improve both areas, but specialise in one. We end up with managers with technical backgrounds (which helps a lot in that they understand us and we respect them), and architects who know how to manage a team.
God Talk
> this is just wrong. there is no other way of putting ig.

What a load of crap. I don't really like ads, I don't want to see ads, and I never click ads, but there's no law that says "you must make it easy for firefox addon developers to block parts of your website".

Get a grip.
Trent Reznor rips Apple, rates smartphone OSes
Tech Socio Tech: My Data, Your Disks, Our Problem
You can see the process and the end result in a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y

Also, if you are interested in procedural cities generation, there is a very cool Swiss startup:

http://www.procedural.com

It's a spin-off from ETHZ graphics research. You can find their SIGGRAPH papers here:

http://www.procedural.com/company/publications.html
'“A two-to-one ratio is understandable, but a ratio of four to one?” Ranadivé shook his head.'

This is very hard to judge without other witnesses to the game. Ranadivé had his girls playing an extremely aggressive brand of defense, which could very easily lead to them committing four times as many fouls, especially if the other team was just sitting back in their defense waiting for his girls to bring the ball up the court.

There is some question, also, as to whether the objective of kids' sports at young ages of competition is to win games, or to develop appropriate skills for higher levels of competition. My son is in his first year of baseball, and I over heard some parents and coaches discussing whether to send a kid from third to home even when the shortstop is holding the ball at the edge of the infield. On one hand, there is a good chance he will not make an accurate throw followed by an accurate catch and tag by the catcher. But that is not good teaching for the next level (Little League) because it will probably be an easy out.
I like del.icio.us because I can pull RSS feeds for various tags, and place them on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar. Can I do this with bookmarks2?

This way I don't save any 'local' Firefox bookmarks. The sharing aspect isn't even an issue unless you don't want anyone to know your favorite sites.

BTW http://delicious.com/popular/ is a gold mine everyday for designers/developers and all around geeks.
Just thought I clarify:

I'm not saying the Android Market is not an open market. In fact I think it is. It is just not completely open as advertised, if there is such a phrase. And it is definitely more open than Apple App store.

What I am saying is that the App Store along with the iPhone as of now is much better for the majority of consumers. And by that definition, they exclude people who can modify and compile from source :) There are easier ways of course, to distribute/install apps for Android other than through Android Market. You can install from flash drive or even through the browser. But remember, majority of consumers.

I have this thought after developing for the iPhone and investigating Android (I have the Dev Phone and I decided not to) - if you look at the current mobile landscape, it is a new battle ground for Apple. It is like the OS wars again. Instead of Windows/OS X/Linux, we have WM/iPhone OS/Android/Palm Pre. The other platforms may have existing market share (Symbian and BlackBerry), but personally I think these are the ones that will dominate. But instead of how things worked out the last 2 decades which almost killed Apple (and I think on the desktop Macs will continue to be a minority), the iPhone platform has a fresh chance to fight again, and this time, being proprietary, in the sense of the OS not being licensed for other hardware, allows it to have a very distinct advantage over other platforms like WM and Android.

Having said that, while I believe the iPhone platform is the leader now, hopefully it will work out to be more or less evenly spread out, with WM/iPhone/Android/Palm all having significant market share, providing choices, competition and encouraging innovation.
As someone who owns a Curve (and whose girlfriend has an iPhone 3G), I must say that I'm very happy with my choice. I definitely prefer the physical keyboard, one inbox for SMS/email, a bright flash for the camera (although picture quality is markedly worse), and I much prefer navigating with the trackball in most applications, including the browser. The iPhone has much better media features (some would say the Curve essentially has none) and complete web rendering is damn nice, but I find the BlackBerry experience satisfactory, and I haven't even seen a Bold in action. HN renders just fine, thankfully.

The App Store is a huge thorn in RIM's side. The Maps app is much better suited for the iPhone than the BlackBerry. Just a few months ago, my gf and I were trying to navigate around Boston (in a car) and her iPhone came to the rescue. It tears me up that AT&T has both the Bold and the iPhone, but if Verizon gets the (full-featured) iPhone, I might not defect.
Except your personal data isn't being shared with some giant ad corp. that will undoubtedly be using it for profit down the road.
Since Haskell lists are lazy, they aren't necessarily in memory all at once. For example, the standard "getContents" function reads a file and returns a list of characters. But since it returns a lazily-evaluated list, you can read arbitrarily large files and they will be streamed efficiently as you consume the list.

This is the same laziness that lets Haskell operate on infinite lists like [1..]