skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy seems to be forgetting that books are just about irrelevant to public discussion. By the time Larry and Sergey die, that will be even more true. Google will be the sole curator of a collection of oddities and amusements from a bygone era -- not quite as much responsibility as he's making it out to be.
Here is the Nature editorial mentioned towards the end of this article: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13134612/Naturrecom456702a
It is indeed amazing. But why put so much effort into a blog? Makes you wonder whether this blog is intended primarily to attract more PhD students to the field.
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Prof. Lipton is, after all, a professor. From his blog, it seems that he truly likes teaching and exposing ideas. An excerpt from his blog:

"I have worked in the area of theory of computation since 1973. I find the whole area exciting and want to share some of that excitement with you."

Many times, interesting ideas which can be explained to a non-expert are scattered in countless papers and books, and it's hard for someone new in the field to put all the pieces together by himself. Thus, a blog seems a great idea:

* it's much faster and more informal than peer-reviewed publications.

* it allows one to communicate ideas to a broader audience.

* it allows one to have almost immediate feedback from the readers.

* it's open to everyone who happens to be interested!
It is interesting to know the economists who predicted market crash from the present Obama administration.
I believe he misinterpreted the statistics. I just hope this doesn't make it into the print edition of WSJ. The source doesn't support extrapolating 450K bloggers who are "making a living" (positive revenue is possible though). The source study does not cover bloggers who generate leads that make them a living, however. The table shown attributes "Bureau of Labor Statistics" for the job numbers but there is no "blogging" classification.

0.02 * 20 million approx 450K but the survey data was against a smaller pool of blogs (those that had registered with Technorati). So more realistically, 0.02 * 1.2 million = 24,000 (with a small number of top blogs attracting the bulk of the advertising revenue)

"we conducted a survey from a random sample from more than 1.2 million bloggers who have registered with Technorati."

Median annual revenue: $120 - $300

http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/blog...
So what do they prefer? I haven't come across a better product so far
They can wait. There is no requirement to implement the product.
>> 6.5x10^-13 * 2.6x10^22 joules of energy, call it 1.6 gigajoules.

= 16 x 10^9 = 16 gigajoules, not 1.6 gigajoules. Suddenly, I feel like taking off my sweater.
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Which just came out on the 9th of April I think, which is how many years late? Also, it doesn't appear to install correctly unless you're running OS X Server. Fine for production, useless for doing development on my laptop with.
Would it roughly translate to redneck (US), chav (UK) or bogan (Aus)?
And Berkeley DB / Sleepycat.
Bosh. the cost of the settlement was relatively paltry. Microsoft could throw a budget of 10 times the amount at it if Bill Gates woke up with a bee in his bonnet tomorrow.
Thanks a lot for the info, I can't believe I just bought two applications I always wanted and never could afford for 10 bucks!
Thanks for posting this. It looks like the server gets into that state by itself.
PPC mac and Linux at home. Winders at work.
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sounds like Freud's temporary conviction that cocaine was the key to liberating man from his natural limitations. What goes around comes around...I guess writers like these articles, because we're always on the cusp a social change, and there will always be new people trying drugs for the first time and getting some positive benefits.

tl;dr; 'intellectuals get high like everyone else - film at 11'.
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That is what I am wondering also.
Isn't it desirable to use .htaccess instead of tinyurl?
If it is possible.
No, it's not a derogatory term. Having high "su zhi" is a good thing.
I wish PG Wodehouse's estate would put this lame trdemark out of its misery. Ask.com has no discernible reason to go on living: I predict they'll get asset stripped when the economy turns, assuming their server hardware is worth selling off.

Let's perform a little experiment...

Search the web for 'why is ask better than google' »

Result #1
Is Ask.com Better Than Google?
Like you, I've been watching what looks to be a very powerful campaign by Ask.com quoting a bunch of folks I know as saying that its search engine is better than Google's. I'm a big Google user and have developed a set of skills that allows...
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/commentary/53184.htm...

Result #2
Why is google better than ask jeeves?
From: Recommended Search Engines UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops Google alone not always sufficient, however. Less than half the searchable Web is fully searchable in Google. Overlap studies show that more than 80% of the ...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080311053...

Result #3...oh wait, that's it.

Hmmm.
You can be sure they'll spend their billions trying to figure out a way not to die.
Alright.

Basically your goal is to use the small pieces of information that you have and piecing that together to find additional info. Finding a person's blog, or a forum username is a goldmine.

It varies with what information you already have. If all you have is a phone #, there is basically just 3 steps:

1. Check Google looking for (###) ###-####, ###-###-####

2. Do a reverse lookup on whitepages.org

3. Use one of the people search websites like pipl.com

Although phone # is usually something you don't have. In fact you are pretty much at the point where its time to trick the guy into revealing more info. Simply have a friend call him up, saying that he is looking for a real estate broker, and setup a meeting at the guy's offices. For a new client, the guy will give up all the information that you'll need.
I'd try calling the library ( http://library.caltech.edu/about/contactus.php ), giving the subject and date information, and asking where you might start looking. You are going to be fighting an uphill battle against the odds (probably any recording has been lost or destroyed), but it is within the realm of probability.
I think it can be more accurately thought of as a way to make it easier for students to start learning new topics that aren't nearly textbook ready
The frustration is understandable. It's partly the problem of gate keepers. Something like 20 publishers turned down J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter book. The people making the decisions on what to fund can be woefully out of touch. What makes me sad is that they often don't try. I'm sick of seeing silly Web 2.0 startups. At first I thought they were getting funding because no one is working on hard problems -- but no. There are a lot of startups taking on tough, game-changing problems; there's just not a lot of funding for them. That makes me sick.

As for the device you mention as an example -- it would be much more amazing and powerful if you could move it down to your wrist, so that they look like wrist bands then combined it with an earbud microphone/speaker. If the electronics were in the wrist bands, the cellphone as a separate device could go away for a lot of people. I would definitely buy that.
Intentional Software raises the curtain
Just as a note, it's $5 per year of support/upgrades for up to 3 years. Then after that, I guess you have to pay whatever the base value is at the time for support/upgrades.
Hmm, I better scroll down to make sure no one else posted this... What font color is that?
-8?!? Oh thank god...
They can if they get a loan from Grameen. And lots of them have. And paid the loans off, using the phones.
here's a good video of the suit in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSP46lWvxJ4
Interesting - I wonder what the limiting factor is for speed? It sounds like there is a bit of a technique to typing with the system, but I wonder if there couldn't be a faster way to filter the signal coming off the EEG.
Actually, the event itself was fine, and I enjoyed it and the people I met. I didn't like how it felt like a big publicity stunt that the twitter community was being asked to support.
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care to elaborate? each one has its own function.
While there is some good stuff here, my first reaction to the idea of "evented programming" as described here is that Katz has simply replaced a perfectly good language-level mechanism for OO-inheritance (the prototype chain) with a library-level mechanism - using jQuery event triggers to implement a kind of AOP-style "before advice" - that makes the code both harder to read and to debug.

Can you imagine using Firebug to step through the chain from the first click event to the "base" implementation of "activate" in this example, through all of the jQuery event triggering going on? Nasty.

Am I missing something here?
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I don't understand your assertion -- the deportation thing is BS, but working conditions seem to be favorable enough that people are willing to leave their families behind and work in the USA.

I don't really want to argue about immigration on here. Suffice it to say I welcome any skilled people who want to contribute to the GDP and body of technical expertise in my country.

The point I was hoping to make is that even if a glut of talent depresses salaries it's worth it in order to stay globally competetive.
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Mental note: ask for 6% raise tomorrow.
There's a direct English translation, as there usually is: "class" sums it up nicely.
Going extra mile and everything else tend to work smoother, yes.

It's too early to say we're anywhere near success. =)
Guess this is preference. But, i'll stick with what works for me.
In summation: the "Dark Ages" weren't dark at all. Health and wealth increased, although more slowly than during the Renaissance. But the Renaissance was actually a step BACKWARD because it comprised a population move toward cities, increase in the idea of private property, European centralized monetary and business policy, and caused the plague. That's right--caused the plague.
Odd. The last several places I've worked have switched to Jira (from Mantis, Bugzilla, some home grown tool, Trac, Excel) and everyone was happier (devs, testers, PMs). Perhaps it wasn't setup well for your uses? I'm not sure.

Personally I love Jira, it's easy to configure to work the way you work, it has tons of plugins, great integrations (Eclipse, Hudson, SVN). It's by the best task/bug/project management tool I've every used.
The voice acting in the Riddick games is top notch.
Google News, and More, on a Timeline
At 4,220 words, he proves Google isn't making his writing more terse or staccato. And, with 22 links scattered throughout, are we expected to make it all the way through in one go without being distracted?

I'm tired of articles like this one. It's nothing more than people used to an old medium bemoaning the new one. To his credit, Mr. Carr draws the apt comparison with Plato:

In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.” And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.” They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”

Obviously, the development of writing changed the world (I contend for the better, but that may be debateable). The crux of the article is that people will rely on the internet (Google) for information, instead of knowing it. I propose this scenario as a counter-example (originally from somewhere else, but I can't remember the source):

Suppose you have two people, Alice and Bob. Alice is your typical human being, and knows quite a bit about a range of topics. Bob has some kind of dementia that keeps him from being able to remember things, so he jots everything down in a notebook. If you ask him something, he'll consult his notebook. He has an equivalent amount of information as Alice. Who is smarter?
Doesn't the fact that he got downvoted sort of prove his point that writing arrogantly is offensive?
I was wondering if anyone here "working" on ZFS can speculate what this may mean for ZFS and Open Solaris.

I tried Open Solaris some time back, though the package system is not as friendly as Ubuntu, I found it really interesting to work with.
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:)

Contrived efforts to keep the conversation serious had made people zealous with their down buttons.
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Selecting a painting modern for your house.
If you are interested in contemporary paintings modern, then Timothy Koochar is the man. He's been around dabbling in oil paintings since the 60's.
Cannot be replicated + signal tiny compared to the noise floor = no evidence for existence.
The United States/China relationship is more like a leveraged buyout.
You've hit the nail on the head.

This is the first time that China's really HAD much of a middle class. Most of this newly minted middle class has moved from being poor peasants to decently paid professionals, and they're quite happy with the current state of affairs.

The Chinese public definitely acknowledges problems with the system. However, for the past thirty years people have been getting richer, living longer, and quality of life has been hugely improved. It sure beats the period before, when they were dealing with war, famine, and the cultural revolution. So, when the government that's brought (relative) prosperity says that democracy is bad, people are inclined to just agree and go along with whatever the government says.

Bottom line: The middle class in China won't support democratic reforms so long as life is improving without them.
So, how might they have been using it internally?
The author doesn't understand how the internet works. In many ways, the First Law of the Internet, as inescapable as a law of physics, is that if the information exists, infinitely many copies will be made. Software piracy is a great example of this: you simply cannot restrict movement of information. It's actually impossible. It doesn't matter how hard anyone tries, governments and private companies both included. The problem today is that the information does not exist in digital form. If Google digitizes it, to say that it'll be closed access is to have a deep misunderstanding of how the internet works.

Whether or not Google remains the portal which people use to access it will be determined separately, by whether or not Google remains the best way to do so.
They gotta pay the bills too. Wait a week and read the stale copy.
I think they should take that cellphone metaphor one step further. Modern cellphones allow you to type a sequence of numbers and then using a basic dictionary look-up to determine which word you intended to type. Since we're down to nine characters now instead of 26 that's a start. Place the cursor in the middle let the person choose one of four directions, or maybe put it in the lower left, let them choose between up and right and put the most popular letters in the lower left of the grid. Now we're at at most two or four moves to typing a character. Still only recognizing on and off on the EEG. If we, through practice, can train the computer to recognize two different EEG states, now the patients can think "up, up, right" we'd start really cooking. And ultimately if it could recognize ten states, then the brain-locked could probably type a character a second, which would not be bad at all. At that point you're fast enough to chat and no-one would know the difference.

I guess what I'm saying is maybe an open source project doing character classification using an off the shelf EEG system might not be a bad idea.
Is there a video or demo link buried in all that text somewhere? I'd really like to SEE this thing...
The transformation from a shrink-wrap industrial software developer to doing web-startups. It takes two different minds; previous projects were hard and very demanding, and they were sold via word of mouth and ads in trade publications. Web business is entirely different.
This article really brought home that adding "Twitter" to a project gets headlines.
Google Launches News Timeline and Similar Images
Brave computer science student gets test question right.
Unfortunately, Twitter does not constitute a "Web of Trust". I don't know enough of the specifics to say anything about the situation in Moldova, but it certainly seems that the general public's cynicism for print and television news hasn't carried over to Twitter just yet (witness the Amazon SNAFU that wasn't). That, alone, makes Twitter just a tad dangerous...
It seems to me (an avid jQuery user, no less) that people are stretching the paradigm too far. There are places where traditional, class-like abstractions are perfectly legitimate, and indeed more natural. Some of the more elaborate applications of jQuery, such as jQuery UI, come across as smelly to me -- sometimes plain old classes and objects are nice.
Awesome, this is my advisor's webpage! (a better link would be) http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/spielman/

One of the main amazing results you can get using this sort of technique is the first simplex style randomized algorithm for which you can prove a polynomial time worst case bound on the run time. You can also use it to prove nice bounds for machine learning and graphic techniques which otherwise have pretty pessimistic bounds but in practice do behave nicely
Ask HN: I want to build/sell a product. Steps?
So, I have an idea (happens often), this time for a tangible product. Its an electronics accessory but is fairly "dumb" in the sense that it has no complex electronics/IO itself.

I'm trying to understand the steps and cost involved in prototyping, testing, and (if its viable) building it.

From some reading I've done, I think the process is:

0. Hack a prototype together (already done cuz I'm scratching my own itch here)

1. get some drawings done

2. apply for a provisional patent ($310 on legalzoom)

3. do a short run of production and see if its something people would buy

4. get feedback

(if its a viable product)

5. do a large production run

6. apply for real patent

7. sell it (either directly online or try to get in with retailers)

My main questions are:

a. how/where do I get drawings done?

b. how do you get a short production run done? Do I do it myself? If I find a manufacturer, what kind of drawings/specs will they need? How will they charge me?

TIA if anyone has experience in this realm.
When will people learn?!? Look, two things you need to know about Hurricanes:

1. Hurricane's are stronger than you can imagine! Imagine the biggest force you can? Was it a nuclear bomb? Funny, because a Category 5 Hurricane is equivalent to setting off one 10-megaton Nuke every 20 minutes! (See subject C5c -- http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/TCFAQ_C.txt)

2. Hurricanes, for all the destruction they can cause, are a "Good Thing". Just like occasional burns in forests are a natural way of clearing out brush, and preventing them only leads to bigger fires, hurricanes redistribute heat energy from the equator to the poles, and preventing them would only lead to bigger hurricanes!
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Interesting. We're trying to put together the cash for a reasonable stipend, and will if we can. We won't give equity for intern/contract type work; almost no one goes, for good reason. That being said, we'd love to be able to bring someone on full time after the summer, assuming things go well. The summer/12 months was designed to appeal to college students who compose the traditional intern market...
Someone else pointed this out before in a different thread but why should they want to change if life is improving without them? If you look at the US as an example of democracy then at the moment it doesn't make a lot of sense. That being said things are always changing and who knows what will happen in the next 20 years.

If things stop improving for most people in China then there will probably be social unrest and they may move to another form of government or the reverse could happen and the US might decide that it wants a nother form of goverment if things don't eventually improve.
$30/hr? I think you're wildly overstating what typical interns make.

Well, I'm only speaking from my own experience. I wasn't talking about "typical interns", because the original article specifically said they were looking for "amazing hackers". But I think most good student hackers will have a very good chance of getting an internship offer from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and so on, and AFAIK they all pay somewhere in the ballpark of $5k/month.

Interns aren't full-time employees, and they come with zero industry experience.

Sure, but if you want to hire top college grads, a very effective way to do so is to hire them as interns, pay them well, and give them a good experience.
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There is a presentation here -> http://www.infoq.com/presentations/intentional-software . I haven't watched it yet though :)
Is the mobile web coming of age?
Not as novel as I was expecting, but still worth a small chuckle. :-p
But not the Pylons project [ http://www.pylonshq.com/ ] (Ref: http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss/msg/6b9bb138da... )?

What is GSoC, the American Idol popularity contest?
Hopefully this will wind up being more than another good idea that never catches on, or takes 40 years to catch on.
"Alex was happy enough to talk about his frequent use of Adderall at Harvard, but he didn’t want to see his name in print; he’s involved with an Internet start-up, and worried that potential investors might disapprove of his habit."

Does this sound to all of you like how start-up investors would react to this issue? Is it a plus or a minus to be known as a start-up founder who uses Adderall to perform?
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Your Internet is almost as ignorant as your statement, but I take it you already knew that given your factual characterization of some people not from the west.

As long as the sentiment like this is taking precedence over, and please pardon my French, the fucking world-wide web then I'm afraid the Zap Brannigans of America will continue to control all of you.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention this. . .Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/2009001_suptables.pdf
"While many bloggers probably support unionization in general, they have no union of their own."

What a preposterous statement to make. "I write a blog, ergo I'm a unionist."

Here's my statement to match:
"While not all journalists use sweeping generalizations, most prefer it to any actual research"
"Undoubtably" is also spelled incorrectly.