skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has 100 people searching every thing that can be searched. We have to do the work when you do the search. We get faster the more people use us. Exponentially.
I don't have a chromebook, but I suppose one can develop browser apps/games running on the canvas?

Recently I started re-doing in HTML5 a game I initially was doing with C/SDL, and I am much more productive now.

You only need an editor and your game assets and you're good to go (for a simple game).

Unless, of course, Chromebooks are much more limiting than I imagine.
The impression I got from the interview is that Eric Schidt feels there is some common ground between what Google does and what Wikileaks does. Some of his reactions seem like "that's the missing idea we needed".

That may also relate to the book they were working on, now called the "The New Digital Age" and to be released in 3 days apparently ( http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Digital-Age-Reshaping/dp/03079... ) - this interview is great marketing for the book then.

The Draw Shop has a nice summary of what's in the book - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39tvjOATrCA
You know I had never thought of the financial damage aspect but you're right on about that.
Damian Conway may be an example of a virtuoso of the form. His diversionary works[1] have no practical value, but explore the corners of what can be done with Perl, and do so in a way that delights, inspires, and encourages reflection. It's his mastery of the tool that allows him to express his cleverness and wit as art.

HAKMEM contains many other examples of original thought around the pulchritudinous value of code in itself, and not just via its result.

[1] For example, Acme::Bleach and Lingua::Romana::Perligata, found on http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/
Point wasn't about ideology but way of life. For example, one of the great things about living in a largely gun-free society is that my probability of getting murdered in a drive-by revenge killing tomorrow is pretty low, since I do not belong to an armed faction responsible for an assault on an opposing faction last week.
No, ignore them until the "cost" of ignoring them outweighs the cost of doing something.

The question is how to calculate those costs.
Mr. Consumerization Goes to Washington
Dude, I'm pretty sure I have ADD aswell, switching majors wont fix anything (somehow I did 2 degree's Computational finance and computer science). Switching wont fix anything!
Watch This Box Travel With A Hidden Camera (Video) - High Tech Point
Things that may or may not help:

- exercise

- no sugar/low carb/paleo diet

- meditation

- ambient music / white noise

- small goals

- adderall

- modafinal

- cannabis

- seinfeld's "don't break the chain" method

- dont fight it, monetize it

good luck bro
Every death or injury is a sad thing, but the fact is that many happen every day, and we should not let these few upset us disproportionally more than the others.

I disagree with you, but I think you're being thoughtful about it.

This is the problem I have with RMS.

Some deaths are more meaningful. Some events are more important.

If a man has a gun pointed at your face, do you ignore it because your singular death won't reach the number of yearly deaths for cancer or car accidents? By RMSs absurdly detached logic, you ignore the gun in your face.

Intention is everything in this issue. A pair of men running around blowing up people and emptying entire magazines in busy neighborhoods trying to murder their pursuers is so qualitatively different from any other quantitatively comparable event where people are killed and hurt without similar intention as to be virtually incomparable. RMS is admonishing us for not comparing the raw body counts.

He would have us walk ignore the gunman with the gun to our head while wearing a hazmat suit and SPF90 sunblock because quantitatively the flu and cancer result in a higher body count than just little old me and I shouldn't be so selfish and not walk around with those protections or I might add to the tally for those kinds of deaths.

Once you start just adding up bodies and comparing the tallies, you've lost the narrative.
Here's some intelligent behaviors that can be simply modelled as entropy: http://scalablegamedesign.cs.colorado.edu/wiki/Collaborative...

That's a very simple model that can be used, in that example, to make a number of ghost agents work together to converge on a pac-man, splitting themselves up to cover every exit. The code to do it is very small, smaller than A*, could also be used to do pathfinding, and is based essentially on the ideas of entropy.
>Oh, and the front page of Reddit is still a worse source of news than the front page of the NYT.

I would argue that Reddit is no longer a news site. Go compare the front page of Reddit to the front page of Digg. You'll instantly see the difference. My current hypothesis is that as a community becomes more insular the quality goes down. Though obviously if there is a theme for the discussion board then veering off topic is bad.
You cannot call for public safety exemption when there is no threat to public safety and the police already stated that there was none.

But let's not kid ourselves, Eric Holder and co give zero fucks about the law or our rights. Fast and Furious anyone?

The problem with this exemption, from what I understand (please correct me if wrong) is that any testimony in this questioning WOULD be admissible in court over some nonsense post 9/11 legalese in some crazy ass bill somewhere.
Do your search a second time. Our index isn't exhaustive yet, and we are slow if we haven't seen enough of the results pages before. We generate the summaries and a bunch of other things after something has appeared in a search result. This is because we aren't a billion dollar company and have to be efficient in our indexing.
Where do you put ads?
s/M/B/g
Marco seems to make this unjustified and unelaborated assertion that price has no bearing on popularity, and the only differentiation between prices in free vs. paid. I'm not sure why this would be so for the App Store. Purchasing software, like purchasing any product, is necessarily a balance between utility and price. I, as a value-oriented consumer, have a finite amount of money that I wish to conserve, yet want to maximize my utility from the product. I could buy a BMW, which would make me happy and increase my utility, but would also put me massively in debt and be fiscally untenable. Because of this, I'm more likely to purchase a low-end sedan, which will function adequately but not break the bank. At the more minute level, I have to decide between superior name brands and cheaper generics. This also entails evaluating cost and utility. The same is true of apps. If I'm presented a choice between an app that does 100% of what I want but costs $3 and an app that does 70% of what I want and costs a single dolar, I will be forced to evaluate the utility of that added utility of that app versus the larger price. That is how decisions in commerce work.

People make purchasing decisions based partially on price... I'm not sure why (or how) Marco is trying to refute that fact.
> There's also some reasons to believe that cohabitating before marriage (to the same person) leads to higher rates of divorce

The problem with seeing this as a causal relationship from cohabitation to divorce is that there's no control for religious belief.

The same religious beliefs and social structures that deter pre-marriage cohabitation also create pressure not to divorce.
Not if the resulting erosion of civil liberties eventually leads to more than ~4 innocents' deaths.
I posted an explanation in the comments. I didn't post this, or expect it to be posted so I didn't write anything up in advance.
And for the less performing apps?
Translation: Sure, the odds have gotten longer. Ticket prices might be higher. Consolation prizes might be smaller. But don't worry. If you pick your numbers just right you too can still win the lottery!

I understand things look different from his vantage point, but I just don't see a healthy market in what he wrote - I see a dying one. With the climb getting steeper and the asking prices getting higher, that just shrinks the potential market for paid apps more and more. That helps a culture of not buying apps (other than games) keep growing. To me, it seems clear where this will end.
While it's definitely a rarely-used feature, the equivalence a[b] == *(a + b) == b[a] is fundamental to pointer math. Once you grok pointer math, then this is an interesting bit of syntax trivia and should not be forgotten easily.
Many are "failed" mathematicians and physicists (among other pursuits) that were unable to earn a reasonable living in their primary field.

I say "failed" only in that it was surprising to me when I discovered numbers of developers with PhDs (or ABD) in purer fields of reasoned discovery or construction than I would have previously expected to be found writing, say, web application servers in the employ of a company not related to their field of study.
A few reasons:

1) In this particular case, the public safety exception to Miranda has been around since 1984 (cue Orwellian conspiracy theories). So, for almost 30 years (longer than my existence), Americans have been "deprived" of this "liberty". Suddenly it becomes an issue in 2013 for armchair devil's advocates in a pretty much open-shut case of domestic terrorism.

Furthermore, the Miranda warning never existed in Ben Franklin's time -- it's a "right" given to us purely via judicial policy. Given that not even Ben Franklin thought that an explicit reading of one's Constitutional rights was worthy of inclusion in the amendments, one could argue that the Miranda warning is a "nonessential liberty," in which case Franklin's quote wouldn't even apply.

2) The same people who spew out this quote give up liberty for safety every day as a convenience. Our purchases, thoughts, questions, conversations, and movements are all monitored on a daily basis. Ironically, the people who frequent HN are actually the ones responsible for not only implementing these monitoring technologies, but also monetizing them--figuring out how to use all of this data collected on you to squeeze extra nickels and dimes out of you. In these cases, we give up liberty for...what, exactly? "Free" products? Certainly not safety. This "it's only wrong if the government does it" BS doesn't fly with me. We ARE the government.

3) The quote itself doesn't explain why those who choose to give up liberty for safety deserve neither--in fact, the only thing going for this quote at all was that Ben Franklin said it. Take away the attribution and you're left with an empty sound bite.
Easy to say for the one man company.
In Opera, "Page > Style > User Mode" does the trick. I know FF and IE have similar functionality, but I don't know the shortcut.
The quote doesn't give brilliant insight into a complicated problem. It just states an opinion and ties a bow on it. There are swathes of such quotes, and you can find one to support nearly any viewpoint. Of the swathes, however, this particular quote has been beaten to a veritable pulp through (mis)use. It is second in prevalence only to invocation of Godwin's law in discussions of this topic (incidentally, there's a nice example of that below).
Barcodes let scientists track every ant in a colony
The public safety exception exists so police don't have to decide, before the fact in a dangerous situation, whether to immediately interrogate the suspect and give up the possibility of using what he says to convict him or to read him his Miranda rights and risk harm to the public.
Is terrorism actually a problem in the US though?
Can we quit perpetuating this idea that prescription stimulant meds are "basically just meth"?

Different molecules, different delivery systems, different dosages, different therapeutic goals (euphoria not being one of them).
Very welcome. We need to change things, and the sooner in their lives, the more difference it makes.

Back in the 90's, I was an engineering student at Berkeley. I was bored eating lunch outside one day by the engr bldgs, & decided to pass the time by counting the gender of just those folks passing by. It was consistently 25% female. That includes non-engineers who were going up to the coops.

And, this is Berkeley. Nobody's going to (rightly) accuse them of anything other than liberal.

When your inputs are 75% male, your outputs are too. You can't put the blame downstream like that, & can't change it downstream as easily.

It's orders of magnitude easier to change this from childhood, early.

I ended up marrying a fellow engineer from Berkeley, & we are raising both our son & daughter to be passionate, curious builders & makers & coders. You don't just use the world, you adjust it & improve it.
Read only media is good advice and low effort compared to most viable defense. Certainly valuable at times worth doing. Starting from the assumption you'll get beaten typically pays off over perfecting the hack-proof nirvana.

Nobody should lose any sleep about BIOS embedding and similar - that level of attacker and sponsor imply a level of threat that no typical organization has a chance against.

In my opinion, after years of pondering dozens of intrusions with many types of ways in and regular failure of all kinds of defenses I don't think there is much advice to give aside from the flaw is in your custom software, stupid.

I have become a really big advocate of CM and push button provisioning with identical replacement hosts that build from scratch and commonly get refreshed - relying on code and configurations managed centrally.

The best way to remove an attacker is a complete rebuild. If you're already using Chef etc why not just dump them proactively? Some roles don't lend themselves to this, but I assure you it is like a massive weight has been lifted.
this is certainly the most intelligent arguement to RMS' case.
I think it comes down to the quote in the OP "So while it may sound weird, it turns out that obtaining a statement outside Miranda but not admitting it in court is lawful."

Your assuming the motivation is to violate the suspect's rights. It might not be -- there might be a clear and reasonable aim to find out if there are others involved.

The authorities probably has a lot of evidence & a strong case without the interrogation. That they want to question the suspect about other parties or networks seems reasonable.

It's a tactic, but perhaps their primary motivation isn't to interrogate to get a conviction -- it's to garner a wider net of information. In that case, the Miranda & having the suspect clam up would be a hinderance.
exactly, the same happened with Kasab, he was put on trial, with all his rights, and only through sheer evidence was he sentenced. To make a example out of these people, law must take its course.
Critiquing the 'Chechen' connection
Software engineers employ math sometimes, but the real world is nowhere near like solving problem sets and writing proofs.

You use this theoretical platform to empower your work and improve it.
> Asking jQuery to support those browsers longer than Microsoft itself is willing do seems a bit harsh.

While I agree with jQuery's decision here, this isn't really fair right? Windows XP and most old stand-alone software they have installed will continue to work after MS drops support.

When we're talking about the web, a reasonable effort should be made to support those legacy users. Of course, you can only do so much, but according to the general consensus in these comments, that's around 10% of visitors. Whether or not dropping them is worth saving the 12% in code size, is a different question.
It kind of seems like the public safety thing is there because they want to have their cake, but also eat it.
Christ, I could have written this. Just found out last month. Not the best feeling in the world.

Advice: go talk to a counselor at your university. At the very least, they should be able to point you in the right direction studies-wise.
AdWords. They're the only ones I've ever personally had a positive return from. At least as near as I can track it.
Reddit became just another aggregator. Flooded with legacy media content and meme photos with a pinch of porn and a junk commenting system. All of the peer generated content is lost in the sea of irrelevance.
Do many people sell their app for free first, and then increase the price? Interesting model. Can you provide some more specific data about the sales? That sounds like a good idea to get some traction and reviews. Were people upset at all with the price increase?

Congrats on the success!
Similar but no articles since there seemed to be much less interest from writers and publishers.
The original letter from Richard Stallman about the Boston Police
> RMS makes a good point IMO: if you want to paralyze a 1 Billion/day economy in the pursuit of 4 people murdered

That's not a good point, because it was not in the pursuit of 4 people murdered. It was in pursuit of the likely future murders if the bombers were not caught.
I'll have to think about it. I'm not sure if disclosing it puts me at any disadvantage, but I want to make sure I'm not overlooking something.
They definitely have gone down in quality from 1998 to now. What caused this? Trying to be more commercial?
Having the URL exist on the server isn't the same as serving a rendered page from the URL, which is what most SPAs do. You could just rewrite all URLs in a website to point back to your index.html, then have the client side router initialize the app from the URL parameters. If you don't have javascript turned on (e.g. googlebot) then all you'll see is a blank page
I agree with you. I also think the "evaluation of utility" of Apps is poor. IMO, You can't really evaluate the utility by just the screenshots and reviews. It would be great if just like a car, you could "test drive" the App. Download a version that would work for x mins and would automatically present you an option to buy or delete after x mins.
> What makes these murders so special?

Bayes' Theorem.
I haven't been medicated for my pretty severe ADD in years (I was very uncomfortable with the personality changes/dampening of creativity/unknown health impact of meds, etc.), thinking I could summon the willpower and discipline to get through it.

I've been spiraling downward in a tailspin of "unproductivity" - to coin a state of being - for a while now, leaving a trail of half started startups and projects in my wake. I've got freelance deadlines that I've missed this week, but I'm sitting here with 30+ HN tabs open in my browser, and probably 10,000 more bookmarked that I'll never read.

I've been working on the "final 10%" of several projects at a snail's pace, for way longer than the first 90% took, and I constantly vacillate between thinking they're the next big thing or a complete waste of time, but I can't - or won't - finish them. More importantly, I'm incapable of doing the smart thing and just choosing one to focus on.

If I'm honest with myself, I haven't been nearly as aggressive as I should have been in researching cognitive behavioral therapy techniques and other non-pharmaceutical coping techniques, or even pursuing some sort of therapy.

Am I kidding myself thinking I can somehow get past this without medication? Is there any other REAL path forward?
I recommend reading this post: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busin...

Some other gems are in here: http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

That is patio11's blog, he is a well respected member here.
Subreddits seem strongly resistant to this, but maybe that doesn't help the un-logged-in or new user.

I read r/gundeals, r/til, and r/iama. None of those have crappy external links. There are the obnoxious memes within comments, though.
I think you're right that most people evaluate app prices this way but the problem is that the net result of scrutinizing such inexpensive purchases so carefully is that all prices are pushed to rock bottom.

The biggest issue with the app store is that apps are undifferentiated. They're all lumped into a big uniform grid and psychologically this communicates that they're all units of some kind of uniform commodity, when nothing could be further from the truth on the production side. At least in the old shrink wrap world you had a lot more ability to physically differentiate your product.

It also doesn't help that any random moron can post an inaccurate or unfair one star review of your app and that's the very first thing any prospective buyer sees.
As I said, it's good advice. But the waters here are much more murky than that. That approach alone won't work for everyone, that's the only point I wanted to make.
In a situation like this, who files the counter-claim(s) to get the content restored?

I would SE as an organization cannot, as they are the safe harbor in this case, but it sounds like the takedown notice wasn't specific enough for the relevant users to know what they can leave up. Does each user involved need to counter-claim so that SE can put the question and answers back up? Can one user claim that nothing on the site was infringing and have that be enough to protect SE?
OK. My first try was to search for "plato dialogue concerning friendship". Google gave me the result I expected (a reference to the Lysis dialogue) through wikipedia and a bunch of articles about it (the most helpful being a link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ranked third). It didn't link the text though in the first page (it only appears in the third page of results, with a copy at the MIT Classics archive). Samuru gives me a bunch of general articles on Plato first (oddly enough, the first results are articles from the SEP, but not the article on "Plato on Friendship and Eros".), some noise and then information on the Lysis. The text itself appeared at 25th place.

Something I find interesting is that one of the snippets samuru gave me (on the 5th result) has a pretty good description of the lysis as the item most likely to be the "plato dialogue concerning friendship": "the dramatically later Lysis presents Plato's more developed understanding of love and friendship than the dramatically earlier Symposium and Phaedrus". From this description of the Lysis one could gather that the text of the Lysis itself should be a very relevant result to the query; at the very least, that information about it should be weighted as more relevant to the query than info on the Symposium or the Phaedrus, and then info on those over all else. From this, I think, one could build a better representation of a good answer to the query than in google or samuru.

I think natural language analysis is very promising here. I hope work on this area yields good results, but it seems like a hard problem.
It's not about deliberately hurting a company; if it's possible to make such a script, it will be made. Period.

The question is: do you want the script publicly available, or in the hands of your adversaries without anyone knowing? There's a third alternative: fix the problem.
A few people (myself included) tried to use it while it was up and everyone had their payment refunded soon after.
This is a huge shortcoming of the current app store model, I agree. That Apple hasn't done anything in this direction for years strengthens my suspicions that they don't really care if the typical dev makes money on the store as long as the big players earn and the users keep buying phones.
Yes, you're totally missing the point, but you said it yourself:

"it seems that he only had taste in choosing among the good designs of others"

That's all it was--a matter of taste, and his was the very, very best. He had an order of magnitude capability in expressing his taste into product visions that he forced into the world, sure on the backs of others, but nonetheless.
I think it's disingenuous to bring up the Taliban and then deny you were saying anything about ideology. It was an emotional appeal that buries your true point. You know who else did that? Hitler.
SJSU Remote Inspection Device (RID)