skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal project is an outliner. My personal project has been an outliner for about eight years now, on and off, and the primary reason that it has been so long is not that I've failed to carry through; it is that my entire goal is to make a "no compromises" outliner, and the open source text widgets just haven't been good enough to support it. (I could come close in some ways, but never close enough that it would ever be a joy to use; always terribly and unfixable quirks that people would have found in the first hour or even the first minute.)

I think QT is good enough now, but I haven't gotten far enough in my current iteration to be sure. But certainly the web is very likely not good enough to give a really good experience. It might be, but I doubt it. Outliners really, really, really push the text widgets, way more than you might think just looking at them. (Especially if you want to take full advantage of them.)

Numerous open source outliners exist with the "click to edit this node" model, but it's just uselessly klunky, in my opinion.

If you don't find this uselessly klunky, pop "open source outliner" into Google and you can find several others that will be quite a bit better and run locally. (I haven't got any recommendations, as I don't like any of them or I'd simply use them.)
Trailer of "Transcedent Man". documentary on Ray Kurzweil
In general I agree but the Nano system could be better if

- you need physically independent systems for some reason or

- you have predictable data-parallel workloads with appropriate interconnect or

- the overall system cost was much cheaper
Responsibility with your finances is the best bet, so I will qualify what I said with, "For irresponsible people, it's best to have a bad FICO score and not incur debt. Better to live a cash life." This often includes college students.

Also, insurance is for poor people. Rich people don't have insurance. For example, in Texas, you don't have to have car insurance if you can verify that you have $100,000 in cash available to compensate a victim of your wreckless driving. Debt is for poor people. Debt keeps people poor.

If you want to be rich, take on no debt, spend only cash, and earn more of it.
> Ok, well what about the idea that WWII was fought to save the Jews from Hitler?

Does anyone really think that? I've never heard that idea posed.
I can not use Chrome as my browser until they get with the times and include mouse gestures.
There is also an extremely well developed open source stack:
http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php
Palm's design philosophy is becoming very similar to Apple's. Now, they are also using Internet marketing campaign similar to theirs.
I've been using Chrome almost exclusively for about 3 months now. I do miss the rich selection of Firefox extensions, but the upside is that the core functionality feels so fast and reliable that my overall browsing experience is much better. And I'm using the Dev track, so 'fast and reliable' includes the expected hiccups you encounter with a weekly development build.

Yes, it's imperfect (#1 annoyance: too few configuration options), and yes I think they need to do more to speed up the extension development. But I do love the fact that a page can blow up or die without taking the whole browser down, and that load/new incidence times are close to zero.
That's pretty sweet.

For synchronization, you could use a pattern of start/stop bits as used by RS232. It would take a few bytes to get synchronized, but it would probably work.
Altruistic chimpanzees clearly help each other out
The time is right for IPTV
Wolfram Alpha Blog : Yes, That’s Dumb—A Lexicographic Footnote
Government intervention did not kill the housecall. :) Specialization and mechanization did: there was less money in general practice than podiatry and fancy machines.

The same thing happened to car mechanics a little later, leading to the joke about the mechanic and the doctor:

"Doc, why did you have to get so much school to be a Doc?"

"Well, because I repair very complicated machines."

"So do I! And you only have to worry about one make and two models!"
FileDict: A persistent dictionary in Python
"nothing--save for money--would stop us from constructing an 'RQ' test."

And politics / political correctness. Anyone who actually made and promoted such a test would probably get shot.
Yet the comparison charts mentions "Exclusive NASCAR Content" and "Live TV" in the same breath as "Physical Keyboard", which seems totally tone-death for a business-oriented phone.
I love outlining but I hate outliners. They all make some mistake that limits their usefulness to me. This one makes the mistake of wanting me to register before trying it out. Haven't we learned from applications like http://jottit.com that this is the wrong way to do things? Let me build my outline and then make me register if I want to keep it
I really like Omni Outliner for the Mac (wish there was an iPhone version).

I like having my outliner local since I often use it for meeting notes and tend to jump around quite a bit at a fast pace. Maybe a web version can be fast enough with lots of client side scripting.
You should consider adding support for ripping mp3s/aac from the videos, if it's not there already. Besides the obvious pirated music part, there are the various amateur performances and talks which people might want to listen to from YouTube.
I'm in a bad mood today, but this made me chuckle:

Talks Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web

You either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of the Adobe Flash Player. To view this video you need to get the latest Flash player.
Time - Einstein & Faith
After the software wars review: "Beyond crap"
Broader Perspective: Expanding notion of Computing
WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS by THE OAK RIDGE BOYS with lyrics
Pirate party to win seats in the EU
"The plan is Sweden, Europe, the world. In that order," said Christian Engstrom, the Pirate Party's top candidate.
very good point. I am surprised by the emphasis people (VCs/YC) put on multiple co-founders. I think it increases the risk of company failing because co-founders didn't get along well at a later stage.
It would be cool if Wolfram Alpha incorporated functionality from Princeton's Wordnet Database:

http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

Screenshot: http://minimalism.linguistics.arizona.edu/~sandiway/wnconnec...

As you can see from the screenshot, it allows you to map all kinds of relationships between words (e.g. taxonomies).

I always found WordNet to be an amazing tool, albeit one that could use some UX work.
I think photocopiers (with Xerox's patent) were very very profitable. A royalty on every sheet of paper copied...
Thanks for joining. Stay a while and contribute as much as you can. I'm a semi-newbie myself and I've learned a ton just by checking in everyday.
"This was the first time any nation held a national election in the midst of a civil war." -from Wikipedia.
Tried it out, biggest complaint is that I can't do "in place" editing -

Example: As Mark Bao mentioned, have to edit to the side, rather than in place. Pressing enter to head to the box, and then hitting enter (or escape) to go back isn't bad, but it is not as ideal as if I could double click and edit in place.

Second (more irritating for me) I can't grab something and drag and drop it.

I know these are challenging technical problems (with solutions) but they do make the experience a little difficult for me.

Also, in Chrome Alt+up and alt+down shortcuts are not working for me. No idea if this is something I've changed as a setting or not. Other shortcuts appear to work fine - but why is it one button (?) to open the help and another (space) to close? I don't see space used elsewhere, perhaps just use space for both?

For exporting, I was not too pleased with how it exported to HTML. I was actually expecting a bunch of nested lists, but it gave me lots of divs and styled it as an outline via CSS. I don't know how other people feel about it, I was looking to use it to outline blog posts: so for me being able to export and then import a list of lists would have been dynamite.
"The contrasting situation in many other countries, where wars from hundreds of years ago are still the basis for grudges today"

I don't think they can be compared. The U.S. was a very young country and the differences between the states were relatively small (mostly white christians from Europe, speaking the same language).

In other countries, you can have two completely separate ethnic groups that look different, have separate languages and completely different religions. If you combine this with a history of territorial wars where one side has dominated the other, it's hard to let the war be over.

In contrast, there was not much difference between the U.S. states. And when the war ended, all states could share the power in a democratic system.
Is this the main launch guide, or just a special edition targeted at selling to business users? The title is "Launch Guide -- Business/Executive BSP"; not sure what that means.
That's your opinion. But as another Mac user - dmg please.
You are overlooking the serendipitous positive use of what otherwise would be negative traits, which is pretty much the origin of complex traits. In other words, that babies got to grow without much hardwired control of their own bodies (and that includes thoughts) provided the opportunity for humans to grow into distinct behavioral patterns (i.e. exercise creativity), and to free themselves from what the genes predispose and then be open for what the culture demands and imprints.

Think about it: the ability to learn so much and about such breadth of subjects could, perhaps, have been made possible by the early birth imposed by pelvic changes related to upright walking. Chimpanzee babies only get one month of flexible, learn-it-all minds.
That is actually what is being used here.

Wordnet is one of the sources for the WordData[] function.
http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/WordData.html
Yep, ... that's why I don't like flash!
Come on, there's even a Wikipedia page for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash
Thought so too, but the "right buyer" requirement doesn't seem like a publicity stunt. They're trying to avoid early exposure of the device to large corporate buyers that:

1) have security procedures for mobile devices.

2) have specific business apps.

3) demand specific mobile features.

4) centrally allocate and distribute devices to employees.

I think Palm lacks the infrastructure to accommodate large organizations at the moment, and is trying to avoid any negative reviews in the trade "CIO literature" until it has its house in order. For now Palm is happy to sell to the "Maverick" corporate employees who is free to plug any FCC approved device to office computer.
Benford's Law meets Clojure
As a beta tester for the original Mozilla when there were about 10 websites (and I was too unimaginative to exploit it profitably), I had trouble selling people on the idea at first, because that functionality existed (in distributed form) with WAIS, Archie, Veronica, and something else whose name I forget right now.

There was a parallel with the problems you mention in that the www looked like eye candy but didn't deliver much obvious new functionality; however, the eye candy served the important function of making things much more attractive and accessible to an audience, whereas effectively using the services mentioned above required a kind of command-line machismo that most people had no wish to acquire - and so those services which delivered information of equivalent or better quality to that available on the web withered away because their cost:benefit ratio was too high.

I think TB-L is on the right track here because although much content of value is silo-ed in multiple ways, once there is enough good open-source (or 'linked data' or whatever you like to call it) material available, people will either abandon or never get into the websites which provide it.
I thought it was pretty evident from the icon: portables, like iPods.
you said

> Textbook "evil", no. But, it wouldn't be hard to stop these things. Apple takes a calculated approach because they know the few wrongfully rejected apps won't cost them as much money as implementing a beefier review process

in other words, you advocate spending more money on reviews. how much? an amount that costs more than the bad PR. you say this explicitly.

how much is "more than the bad PR"? quite a lot. you and i both agree the PR is a big deal.
So how is rationality defined and how is it measured? Does it correlate with any important life outcomes such as income, academic performance or law-abidingness? He says that irrationality can be "fixed." Does this fix result in measurable changes in peoples' lives?

He says that IQ and rationality are "very imperfectly" correlated. What is the number, exactly?

You seem pretty determined to persuade us that IQ is unimportant. I don't claim to be an expert on the subject, but HN readers should know there's more to the debate:

http://www.sullivan-county.com/id5/murrey.htm
Yup, Wired used to try and predict the future, but now it just reports on the recent past.
Outliner users seem even more finicky than other users. (I say this as one of them.)
The datacenter is the new mainframe
Doug Crockford: JavaScript: The Good Parts
From the human point of view this change will be a throwing away of all the previous rules, perhaps in the blink of an eye, an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control. Developments that before were thought might only happen in "a million years" (if ever) will likely happen in the next century.

We are already seeing this happen because of the use of computers. Computers allow us to violate the economic laws and collapse the financial system. Computers have been the cause of more than one financial collapse in the past.

I have read words like, "AIG didn't factor in the probability of these things happening, because they were so remote." Isn't that the same as "happen in 'a million years'?"

Computers are allowing us to do things today, that we thought only decades ago would only be possible in a million years -- or never. Many thought we'd never get to the moon. We probably wouldn't have without computers.
Why Firefox's strict JavaScript warnings are wrong
Are those 9 PWM outputs or inputs? Probably outputs. I need 8 PWM inputs, with an accuracy of 1/5th of a degree.
At the risk of breaking the "silence" here (15 upvotes and no comment?!), let me add this:

"Less than three minutes after an event, we expect a world of talking heads to pronounce judgement on the meaning of what's transpired."

We don't really expect it in the sense of wanting it. We expect it because we've been conditioned to instant noise on everything and now would find it creepy if something interesting (broadly defined) happened and there was silence. Reason is, all those media guys who want to draw our attention to sell their customers's products cannot survive on delivering Just the Facts, Ma'am. There are only so many known facts concerning any issue, and they are usually a little harder to come by than mere sentiment and opinion, wrapped in human interest drivel. I often imagine what a typical news article, even in a generally good paper like the Grey Lady, would look like if boiled down to just the facts. I'd die for a medium that gave me just the facts and remained silent when it was done delivering (or still in the process of hunting for) them.

As for the more personal connections, I routinely find people are genuinely annoyed or even take it personal when I turn my phone off or don't reply to email. I don't even have a Twitter account and just today shut down my FB page, but people do expect it -- even though they know I'm not the social type. Even harder to do in work environment where bossman or colleagues expect to be able to call you anytime. Sigh... Similar to the media, I often ask myself what they would say if they just gave or asked me actual information/content, without the whole yadayada wrapper. I think it's some sort of validate-my-existence/status/whatever thing but I ain't no psychologist, so...
Switzerland has fewer than 8 million people today. No, it is clearly not a superpower, but then again no one is writing articles about how it has failed to live up to its potential.

And Great Britain seemed to do acceptably well with fewer than 40-50 million people during its empire period.

Besides, during the defining interval, 1800-1920 or so, Argentina could have made up the difference by being a better place to immigrate, which is in part what the article covers.
whenever i read linux haters, i always feel like it is the geek version of the high school wrestling team yelling at those they don't like from the back of the bus- just sub 'freetard' and 'lusers' for 'faggot' and 'nerd'.
The first three possibilities depend in large part on improvements in computer hardware. Progress in computer hardware has followed an amazingly steady curve in the last few decades [17]. Based largely on this trend, I believe that the creation of greater than human intelligence will occur during the next thirty years.

Yes, well, single-core clock speeds are a dead end now, and it's not at all clear how to take advantage of multiple cores in the same way. Why are we still excited about this?
My bad. I mis-remembered as if they had purchased a majority stake.
The Male Programmer Privilege Checklist
You nailed it. This idea or distinction is certainly not new, anyone who's attended university or even high-school knows this somewhere inside, but this is the best verbalization I've yet seen. Thanks!

Now the question is, when is what strategy better?
Google would like a word with you.
Now I see what Steve Yegge was talking about in his sci-fi story...

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/05/programmers-view-of-...
The world's coal and oil supplies represent millions of years of carbon absorption. If we burn through it in a thousand years, we've likely put more carbon into the atmosphere than has ever been there before (at one time).
JSLint, The Javascript Verifier
Hacking The Hedonic Treadmill
This isn't even "modern" in compiler terms, it's a simple peephole optimization. (grep through the IR, check for "X / 2^n", replace by "X >> n") To get it right when you have

int a;
int b = 64;
a / b

requires dataflow analysis so you can do constant propagation, copy propagation, and dead code elimination. This is more work to get right, but that's not a very good excuse for not at least doing the peephole optimization.
Yes, I would have liked to see and example of what a question from a "rationality test" would look like. IQ tests are already accused of cultural bias - I can't imagine an objective rationality test.
once there is enough good open-source (or 'linked data' or whatever you like to call it) material available

As far as I understand things, linked data is just a euphemism for RDF (or RDF + microformats), and there's no shortage of open source RDF implementations.
> "When it was over, it was over"
> > ...is also far from correct

Political grudges are one thing. But I think we were extremely fortunate that the American Civil war did not devolve into a protracted guerrilla war. I have always heard that Lee's leadership was a major factor that prevented that from happening.
In an advertising dominated web, the product is the view of the advertisement. The advertisement is displayed in the interface. The reason the data is not available outside the interface, is because the advertisement will not be seen. Facebook cannot open its data, because if its data was open, the ads on the Facebook pages would not be seen by the users of the data, and therefore Facebook would not make money.

We can only open data when we change the business model on top of the data.
The human mind is highly parallel. Anything that approaches it in intelligence will also be highly parallel. Even if clock speeds were a million times faster, parallel would be the only way to manage the complexity. The clock speed of a neuron is only 5ms and we do pretty well.
My understanding is that it is not supposed to be a business phone. It is supposed to be a middle-of-the-road phone, excellent for both your business life (like a black berry) and personal life (like an iphone). So these being in the same breath makes perfect sense.
This is what Ang Lee, the non-american director of the Civil War movie "Ride With the Devil" said:

"I grew up in Taiwan, where older people always complained that kids are becoming Americanized: they don’t follow tradition, and so we are losing our culture. As I got the chance to go around a large part of the world with my films, I would hear the same complaints. It seems so much of the world is becoming Americanized. When I read Daniel Woodrell’s book Woe to Live On, which we based Ride with the Devil on, I realized that the American Civil War was, in a way, where it all started. It was where the Yankees won not only territory but, in a sense, a victory for a whole way of life and of thinking."
Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals
Why use a dmg instead of a Zip? See Apple's docs, http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/Conc...

Also, you could have taken 30 seconds in the past 5 years to explain to your uncle how to install Mac apps. Instead of, you know, ranting about how its convoluted the entire time. All you have to do is say "Double click it and drag and drop the file to /Applications." — Though thats irrelevant now, since Safari now handles dmg's with a .app the same as if it would when extracting a zip.
Do Not Play the Lottery Unless You Are a Millionaire
> But isn't oil carbon neutral? ;-)

Heh. The area under the curve may add up to 1, but it's coming out a lot faster than it went in!

I used to be somewhat worried that when oil starts to run out it will leave the developing countries "in the lurch" so to speak. That is, they will not be able to develop beyond a certain point because energy will simply become too expensive. Then I realized that there is an enormous amount of coal still available. So there is a chance that the future may yet be steampunk. For a little while, at least.
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
The art of starting a project
For those truly interested in improving their rationality, http://www.lesswrong.com is in a similar format to Hacker News and is dedicated to the subject.

More directly addressing this article, K.E. Stanovich has conducted some excellent research showing relationships between cognitive abilities and thinking styles. It is fully available online. General reasoning/rationality works are available here: http://web.mac.com/kstanovich/iWeb/Site/Research%20on%20Reas...

Here's a particularly relevant piece: http://web.mac.com/kstanovich/iWeb/Site/Research%20on%20Reas... (Various cognitive bias tests are conducted to explore relations between cognitive functions and challenge assumptions on normative models of rationality. Really interesting exploration of competence-performance dichotomy with focus on effects of thinking dispositions vs. algorithmic limitations. The effect of thinking disposition in achieving normative rationality is an important consideration that applies to considerations for improving your own thought/action models)
As it baffles me that you believe the opposite.
The "clock speed" of a neuron is actually closer to 50ms-100ms (only about 10-20Hz for meaningful purposes) -- but you have about 100 billion of them, and they're all working in parallel. The brain's building blocks are really slow relative to silicon; action potentials move at speeds measured in m/s.
This actually makes some sense. I've been meaning to write a paper for the last few weeks. Last night I hammered out a "junk" version that I could improve later. And here I am working on it now.
That's parallelism at the "micro" level. Compare it to the parallelism in superscalar or EPIC processors (incidentally, EPIC is also hard to take advantage of). This argument doesn't show that many-core architecture is necessarily going to help.