skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or tractors and then cut their tires out and replace with metal wheels. I can't see how that makes them more productive. If anything that makes them less productive, no?

Of course it makes them less productive. I'm not saying that these restrictions don't make them less productive. They massively do. I'm saying that making themselves less productive is not their goal. They evaluate a technology based on its moral and societal impact, not on how productive it will make them.

A more accessible parallel might be 18th-19th century America. Slave labor made cotton farms overwhelmingly productive. If a farmer decided not to use slaves, would you accuse him of not wanting to be productive? Or is it possible that for this farmer, slavery was a non-starter on moral grounds?

> Isn't that the other justification for their way of life -- don't become too productive, it will hurt you, and ruin your way of life?

I've never seen evidence of that. I know more about Mennonite history, but Mennonites were just fine about being some of the most productive farmers in Russia. The difference is that "living off the land" and "being the most productive" were not as hard to reconcile back then as they were after the industrial revolution.
I looked at the teaching kernels xv6 from MIT, and Pintos from Stanford. They are both x86, and I've heard the same sentiment that you express, which makes me a bit hesitant to dive in.

Does anyone know of something similar for x64? Or maybe ARM? Online course materials would be nice.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos.h...

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html
> When you release a new programming language or library into the wild,
> the initial state of your “users” is going to be blank.
> The things they need to know when they encounter your library are:
>
> 1. What is this thing?
> 2. Why would I care about this thing?
> 3. Is it worth the effort to learn this thing?

Yes, please! If all libraries / frameworks included this information it would make everyone's lives so much easier.
Key graff: "The average tax rate these companies currently pay to other countries on this income is just 6.9 percent, well below lower the 35 percent statutory U.S. corporate tax rate."

As I recall we (the US) have the highest corporate income taxes in the developed world. It would be a gross dereliction of management's duty to shareholders to repatriate it unless really needed.
It works! That's the problem. Governments can't have that!
That is sad :(

I preferred Key Lime Pie (the fact that this is my favourite dessert is only coincidence ;) )
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If you want to do one at a time shoot sheet film instead! Its even more fun and you can contact print...
"This is not a money-changing-hands kind of deal," - John Lagerling, director of Android global partnerships - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938
> What's wrong with people these days? You can't rhetorically explore someone's views without everyone jumping in and shouting "strawman" as if it's their new favourite word.

A strawman -- which, as you admit, this was -- is very different from "rhetorically exploring someone's views". Its "rhetorically exploring something distinct from the views of your opponent, and using it to impugn the views of your opponent."

Which, you know, makes people upset.
Break me off a piece of that KitKat... ecosystem?
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This conversation is done. Feel free to reply to this in any way you like, I'm not going to bother replying again. I am confident that anyone passing can make their own mind up about our discussion.

For review, here are the basic facts.

You have repeatedly failed to acknowledge that you can get definitive yes/no answers from questions of the type, "What does this theory predict for this situation?" You have repeatedly failed to acknowledge that this type of reasoning is part of the process of doing physics.

You have repeatedly sidetracked to lectures on falsification where you ascribe all sorts of random beliefs to me that I do not, in fact, possess. There is a certain irony to you lecturing on falsification and the behavior of scientists, while refusing the acknowledge that the example of Fred Hoyle never accepting the Big Bang throws a wrench in your description. No, it is worse. You claimed that Fred Hoyle "gave way before falsifiable evidence" when, in fact, few knew that evidence better than he, and he never "gave way". (Instead he continued to adhere to steady state models which had tunable parameters that could continue to explain the evidence. A good Popperian would say that such tunable models cannot be part of science. At which point any historian of science should give a big belly laugh because they are.)

Now you say that, I'm accustomed to having discussions with people who can't be bothered to examine their own ideas. Is that because they can't be bothered to examine their own ideas, or because you fail to recognize that they have?

I will leave you with some interesting examples to ponder.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly for a well-known experiment which appeared to falsify basic theories of physics for over a decade before the source of experimental error was definitively tracked down. When experiments can be reconciled indefinitely with theory by assuming experimental error, what experiment can conclusively falsify theory?

Does this actually happen? I give you the example of Barbara McClintock. From the 1930s until the 1970s she carried on a line of research that falsified the developing genetic theory. As a result she was marginalized and her work generally ignored until, as a result of other developments, it became apparent in the 1970s that she was right. Then she was awarded the Nobel in Medicine for some of her discoveries from the 1950s. (See http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/19... for the press release. The final paragraph is an acknowledgement of her situation.)

If scientists actually worked through falsification, then they should have been all over her reproducible experiments decades earlier. That they didn't, stands as falsification of the theory that scientists proceed through falsification!

But anyways, we're done. Hopefully at some point you reconsider your overly simplistic view of actual science. But I have reached my tolerance for continuing this discussion.
There's also an excellent writeup by GlusterFS contributor Jeff Darcy:

http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/2012/10/rackspace-bloc...
One of the Norwegian samples is an interview about Varg Vikernes (aka Burzum)!
I hope this applies to technical books as well. I would love to have things like my old DSP textbook and others available with me wherever I go, but still have the hardcopy I'm used to at home.
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Monopoly board images:

https://www.google.com/search?q=monopoly+board&safe=off&rlz=...
On the other hand, many people don't have a healthy fear of automobiles, considering the lethality of the physics involved in a collision.
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"This code was written several years ago as one of my first projects when I was in High School so it's normal if some parts of the code looks like "crap"."

In other words: "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)..."
>since every thick-client media site is intermittently a bad citizen on mobile browsers

Not just mobile browsers. They are horrible everywhere that isn't chrome or firefox.
Wouldn't you not be resident in any state in that case then? Or could pretend to just be in a non income tax state?
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> I still have a R-75 hooked up although I don't often use it anymore.

I'm also a shortwave fan, and I also find it less interesting as time passes. But there's a concrete reason -- there are fewer interesting shortwave programs, mostly in response to the rise of the Internet, podcasting and satellite radio.

Many shortwave bands, once teeming with interesting and useful content, have been taken over by niche broadcasters like religious groups, or ordinary broadcasts that have shifted to the shortwave bands from the AM broadcast band in tropical areas to avoid excessive noise. Overall, less interesting shortwave content.

Apropos of nothing, for years I believed that one of my favorite AM radio stations for long-distance reception (KGO near San Francisco, 810 kHz) had its frequency to itself -- was a "clear-channel" broadcaster. I recently discovered that this hasn't been true for decades -- there are now 182 U.S. domestic AM stations on that one frequency. I was shocked.
I use my thumb.

Though I replaced my CAPSLOCK with CTRL and I mapped C-x C-m and C-c C-m to be equivalent to M-x. This dramatically reduce my usage of Alt.
Progressive enhancement is good practice, period.
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4.4 and not 5.0? I bet the 'major' change will be renaming the stock browser to 'chrome'
Sorry for being the obnoxious fanboy of another language, but Lisp + Slime + Emacs has had this feature since forever: By including some swank-updater in your main loop you can have this functionality too. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pMyhrDcMzw
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http://mindovermatter.it/

Just a quick and dirty hack I did while learning Go and how to set up an EC2 server. A proof of concept for a feature I think it would be useful on HN.

It often happens that I read the whole thread of comments for a discussion, and get back to it at a later time to see the updates.

It's hard to see at a glance which comments are new and which ones I already read.

The app uses cookies to record the last time you accessed a discussion thread, and modify the html in order to highlight the new comments (the ones added since your last GET of the page).

Just access a discussion thread through the proxy site, and come back when new comments are added to see the effect.

(Obviously I don't have access to HN backend, so you can't do anything more than reading a thread).
Primarily because KitKat is a brand name, and Key Lime Pie is not.

Also Nestle are releasing some kind of limited edition KitKat bar, so it's clearly something beyond the usual naming system.
I develop on google's CR-48, by using ssh and remoting into linux servers. (trick: use ctrl+alt+o to save buffer in nano in ssh, because ctrl+o launches chrome open file dialog)

The CR-48 has 8-9 hours of battery life.

Also, if someone steals my laptop, I can replace it with this ( https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_... ) and lose nothing, since the passwords/ip addresses/etc are not stored on the machines, and no code is stored on the machine.
Thanks James. I wanted to see what you must be doing in those 2-3 hours/week, so i just checked your website and twitter account. What you are doing with "customer feedback day" is awesome, very few people in freelancing/small-agency setup do lead nurturing and i believe you are one of those.
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https://circleci.com/ <- ftfy
It isn't extra work or an edge case. It is doing the baseline correct thing. I can't count the number of fad obsessed "web developers" who ask us why we serve html instead of javascript crap, while they take 3 times as long to produce a broken version of the same thing.
Either that or Google thinks Android market share in Japan needs a boost...
CDs are inferior to vinyl in album art quality, and the size of posters that can be included with the record. From a purely physical perspective, I prefer buying vinyl.
The UI on this is terrible.
You Didn’t Try? You Can’t Fail, But You Have (How To Be A Failure)
You have two options: You can either believe in Luck, or in Faith. Choose your poison.
What if KitKat came to them?
:grin: Yep! As the original article said, digging into the spec and clarifying is absolutely a trait of a great developer (even an average one).

Possibly being able to write a very clear requirements/spec with very few words is one of the hallmarks of the greats. (The initial RFCs for TCP/IP are amazing).
I really appreciate this article! So many people go to interviews and are obviously unprepared. The simple fact that a person is unprepared for the given task is an obvious show on their personality. This goes for just about anything, not just interviewing. Would you just walk into a test without going to class first? Would you try to fly a plane full of people without first being taught how? So why would you go to an interview without knowing whats expected.

- Know that an interview is a 2 way street. Have questions to ask the interviewers, if they ask you silly algorithm questions, have them explain to you how they use those algorithms in the workplace.

- Make sure the job your interviewing is a place you can fit into, not just the other way around.

- If you don't know something they are asking, just be upfront and say you don't know it, then ask them what it is and how its used at their company. Take note of this for future interviews.

- Don't let the interviewer lead the interview the entire time.

- For those of you haters that don't like the B-list idea, you could ask your peers that work at other places to interview you. (Interesting idea for a startup? Mock interview company? :)
It's not about who discovers the technology. They're completely fine using others' inventions. The main difference is that they live by the motto "just because we can, doesn't mean we should."

They treat all new technology with suspicion because they are afraid of the negative impacts it will have on society. And it's not like that's completely unusual...think about how many people, even on HN, bash Facebook for the detrimental impact it has on human interaction. Lots of people have "unplugged" from Facebook. The Amish just take this attitude to the extreme, and make it a community choice, not an individual choice.
China could become the first country to legalize parcel delivery by drone
The next Nexus phone should be out in November. They often introduce the newest version of Android on those (all except the Nexus 4, which came with 4.2 introduced on the Nexus 7).
The explanation might be simpler than you're suggesting. When a registered trademark is used by someone other than the person holding the trademark, it's often allowed if the use is in an unrelated domain -- in this case, computer software, not candy. Because this doesn't confuse the public or hurt the originator's business, often there's no complaint.
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The strategy to partner with MS always seems heavily tilted in MS favor. It probably makes a good business study how this can be avoided for anyone in a similar industrial position. It always baffled me that there was no successful shareholder riot because Elops strategy seemed like a self-goal no matter how it would play out.
Or maybe some sort of "hypertext" document. That could contain links to other such documents, allowing users to easily navigate content. All this interlinked content could form some sort of "web" even.
Does this not happen all the time during interviews, when recruiters are talking to candidates and between friends of both coasts? Nothing more than a little friendly banter.
Software Security: Balancing Resources and Risks
Canada wishes, if only for the restaurants..
If risk-aversion is the central issue here, there should be a higher risk involved with a) shooting or otherwise harming civilians when you're law enforcement, and b) taking away liberties when you're the lawmaker. But with a dysfunctional justice system and a voting system that cements the broken 2-party regime, this won't ever be the case.
Revenue isn't the right metric; profit is. My point is that chasing revenue isn't what good businesses do, they chase profit. I don't care about 2% additional revenue if doing so reduces profit due to the extra development and maintenance overhead and neither should any sane business person.
If you scroll to the bottom you will find two buttons labelled "Learn more about Kit Kat" and "Learn more about Nexus". If you click on the first button you are taken to a page about the candy bar, not the new OS version. This was clearly a paid product placement.
Android Dessert History
In 2007 RIM had a market cap of $120 billion.

Disruption is no fun for the disrupted.
So the OP says that a lot of little experiences add up to being able to divine the tiger in the brush.

My question is, how do you get that sixth sense? As far as I can tell, there's no shortcut. You have to do a lot of things, and see a lot of different scenarios, and get burned along the way. The only one I can think of is to talk in confidence with people more experienced than you in a particular arena as scenarios arise.

Has anyone else found another way to build or harness a sixth sense that the OP is talking about?
> You have two options: You can either believe in Luck, or in Faith.

That's called a false choice, but I think you knew that. :)
Every single indicator is trending away from Apple here, from number of app downloads, to overall revenue, to revenue per-app. It's still in Apple's favor, but the gap is narrowing quickly. I've seen a very dramatic change in the attention devs feel they have to give Android even in just the last year.

Maybe this won't continue but if you're skating to where the puck will be then it doesn't look so much like Apple right now.

http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-market-q2-2013/
I hope not. Chrome for Android is definitely not ready. The performance is really bad compared to the stock browser.
Considering all the different flavors of kitkat in Japan, I would think it would become more fragmented, not less.
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Data Is The Most Valuable Commodity On Earth
Commodities, such as oil, gold and soybeans, are tangible, real, transportable and tradeable and have been used a means of doing business, hedging risk, investing and even speculating for hundreds of years. Recently though, traditional commodities have experienced lackluster returns for investors whereas a new, non-tangible and only virtually transportable commodity has soared in popularity: data.
How 10Gen uses Go and MongoDB by Sam Helman (engineer at MongoDB)
Agree. Gambling. Ignoring the downside risk of something can be a huge mistake. It's one thing to pass up selling your macbook and oops they just released an updated model now I will get $300 less on ebay. Another thing to pass up a billion dollars for a company no matter what you think the future is. Or for that matter any large amount of money for your company.
Does anyone know if Kit Kat will be coming on the Google Nexus 4 smartphone I just ordered a few days ago? I'm not familiar at all with Google's records with allowing older phones to upgrade to newer versions of Android. Thanks.
I remember reaching out to them a couple years ago asking about their stack, and I got a really nice/informative response back (actually they linked me to a page on their site that listed all the info). These two deserve it!
6 Psychological Issues To Get Over When Starting a Business
Why the hate?

" speaking as someone who used to spend hours and hours as a kid in the 1980s in our garage, making prints in our home-made darkroom."

That is why, the grand parent has an emotional attachment to the memories of making prints in their garage, and someone has made a toy which will give someone a "photography like experience" (sort of like an "Easy Bake" Oven gives you a cooking experience) and they cry inside over the cartoon like experience of something that was so transformative in their life. It expresses as hate.

When they put in an escalator on Mt. Everest for the last pitch, when you "run a marathon" in virtual reality, or when you replace all the chemicals in a chemistry set with water. Basically if you take an experience that someone had, and make it accessible by reducing the challenge and/or fidelity you will invoke this reaction on people whose emotional enjoyment of their memories is the challenge or fidelity.

That said, I don't think it will be all that successful. We were quite successful helping folks enjoy analog photography with light sensitive paper and pin hole cameras. Even contact prints of leaves or insects can give you a sense of wonder. This seems like it will be much more expensive than that without much in the way of additional depth so the value proposition is effectively lower.
Here's someone who was willing to accept some risk in order to help her son learn on his own:

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/why-i-let-my-9-year-old-ride-su...
It's not supposed to be paid by either side:

However, Google told the BBC that it had come up with the idea and that neither side was paying the other.

"This is not a money-changing-hands kind of deal," John Lagerling, director of Android global partnerships, told the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938
Why you can't just be a CEO for any ol' start-up
For people to read the longer-explaination, please read my post... http://www.tomtancredi.com/2013/09/03/the-heart-and-soul-of-a-company/
For the shorter explanation, it's this basic concept.
1.) The CEO personifies the ethos of the company. If you're Daniel Day Louis, I'm sure you can represent the values of Apple as much as Taco Bell for the short-term, but this is a lifetime role.
2.) Management's main duty is to create an atmosphere of reliability - not creativity, cleverness, or innovation. Those things come from after creating a stable environment for your creatives. You can argue that start-ups are inherently unstable, and that high-growth is unstable, but management is how you keep the rocket together as it goes into lift-off.
3.) Only the creator can create the vision of the company. That's my one acknowledgement to Steve Jobs in a career where I preferred Microsoft over Apple almost in every category.

Anyway, that's my sense of the world. What do you think?
This can't come soon enough. I'm preparing for a potential cross country move early next yet. I was looking at the potential of getting rid of a multitude of books that I haven't read yet since the storage cost would probably exceed the repurchase cost whenever I did get around to wanting to read those books. This makes that choice even more palatable.
Maybe we're reading that sentence differently? I read it as "the most widely distributed runtime that is also relatively advanced." I took it as a given that Tom Dale does not believe the web is the most advanced programming environment.
Nope, not paid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938 it's just a bit of fun.