skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the same thing I took away from this story, and I also appreciated the reminder. This story might not appear, on the surface, to have a high degree of "information content" or whatever, but it's still useful as is.
A potential side-effect to this company would be googles technology expertise married to the biotech/pharma? world. We often hear that this drug cost billions to manufacture and therefore we need to recoup our costs through it's sales. Perhaps we see less expensive drugs as a result during this journey. That would be a huge win IMO.
Should Software Resulting From Grants Be Open?
Is it April 1st again???
I don't care about their internal motivations. Why should I? It's not as if what you said is even all that different than what we thought anyhow.

Now, I realize that may sound like snark, but I actually mean it on a deeper level than that. Why should I care about their internal motivations? EE chose how they would interact with me. It was their choice. They get to live with the consequences. If they had wanted to be perceived differently, it's incumbent upon EE to decide to treat me differently. It's not my responsibility to try to "understand" them, any more than it is my responsibility to interact with any other company in exactly the way they want. That's freedom, for the both me and EE.

You're equally free to defend them, and I was free to read the defense out of curiosity, which is why I'm posting at all. But the end result is the same; I know EE by their actions, and the result is what it is.
Steve Jobs "BOOM" complete compilation (1992-2010)
Oldest telegraph pole in UK donated after retiral
My first Android was a cheapy which I knew I could install CM on and get a stock Android feeling. I like a few of the additional touches that CM added though. Same as you, several phones later and I just rooted, unlocked and installed a JellyBean ROM, tried several variants but since my phone was no longer supported I opted for a custom ROM.

It was too hit or miss as you say, some deviating too far from stock Android for me. I've decided to go back to ICs when my device was supported by CM and a stock Android feeling...

They'd have to seriously impress me to go fully CM and deviate away from stock Android.
I am deeply disorganised myself. Without keeping track of things I'd be all over the place. I find the tactility of paper beats computer-based organisation solutions hands down.

But once you have a notepad in front of you I can't really see any other way of doing it, especially for someone with a technical type of brain. You need date headings, you need bullet points for items, you need tasks to check off, you need a way of representing ticked-off-ness and a way to carry tasks forward. The problem kind of defines the solution automatically.
The thing I found particularly fascinating about this one is the mining of public data, and the occasional slip, to come up with a defensible, if not plausible, estimate of Google's capacity.
I have a simplified version of this type of bullet point system, but this is more fleshed out. I will be trying this.
I'd rather live in a world where my great-grandparents are in charge than not live at all.
Which law(s) does it violate?

United Nations Convention Against Torture (torture itself, and rendition - refoulement)

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Geneva convention

US Constitution - which is apparently now only applicable at the government's discretion

I'm afraid I don't subscribe to the sophistry which claims those detained are 'enemy combatants' to which no law applies simply because of a suspicion without charges or evidence, or that waterboarding is not torture. More important than the arguable illegality or (at best) extra-legality of the camp though, is the enduring damage it does to the reputation of the US throughout the world.
Not letting you install a recovery.
Whoa.

First of all, I didn't know you could just build an operating system startup (edit - in 2013). Second of all, they seem to offer some pretty compelling features, but more importantly, solve the pain point of supporting older phones that don't get the new Android OSs.

Question - they alluded to revenue generation in the article, stating that "If you’re the default OS on a device and you have 50 million users, there are a lot of ways to make money,". What are some of these ways?
I always felt CoffeeScript was closer to Python then Ruby. But maybe its just the significant whitespace that stands out to me.
Alright, fine. If you believe calling Experts Exchange names by a tiny startup, that had just joined the QnA business, had anything to do with killing EE, you are horribly wrong. It's like me calling for Microsoft's death as an individual and when they die eventually, get blamed for their death as if my rant, not their incompetence, contributed to their death at all.
can't be bothered to, plus, I don't particularly like the MIT or BSD licenses (they're still licences, and you shouldn't need my permission). Sometimes, I put in a copyheart statement.

I also understand the liability part of the licence and I think it's disgusting: Limiting your liability by indemnifying yourself with a statement that no one is going to read, as far as I'm concerned, also means that you've lost. If someone wants to sue me for misusing my software then they can live out the rest of their lives as the miserable, tortured soul that they obviously are.

those countries that don't have public domain concepts are obviously putting themselves at an economic disadvantage - so they'll get what's coming to them. I only fear that we are headed that way in this country.
From personal experience, I can tell you why I detest EE - their dark pattern practices. I did sign up and pay for a subscription, and it was not a ripoff. However - when I went to cancel it, I had to SEND A FAX (or use snail mail, IIRC) to stop payments. That's right, you could not cancel online. See ya later!
What did EE do that was worth of scorn?

Wasted our fucking time: I want to know how to do X, if you want me to pay for that knowledge fine but don't do some shitty thing like cloaking the site so people would get tricked into paying while at the same time gaming Google to get these higher results.

Manipulated people into paying for the site: It's high up on Google so it must have the answer right? OK I guess I'm going to have to pay or else my ass gets fired.

But don't pretend like what EE did was "OK" because some Matt Cutts video said it was. Obviously it was not because it got hit and sank in rankings. SO wasn't what killed EE with it's "negative campaign," it was already well hated before SO came onto the scene.

Good riddance.
I upgraded the instant I saw it for 2 reasons:

1) I've been wanting a way to PAY for this service for a long time now so I know it's there year after year. I'm super happy to give them $5 per month.

2) I wanted pretty backgrounds.

I am what I am.
IOS 7 released: go forth and update
Experts Exchange was and is adversarial to its own users. Not Google, its own users. By charging for freely available content, they are making their own users suckers. That's enough to avoid using it, in my opinion.
You're quite right. Very common error, unfortunately.
Google taps former genetech ceo to lead calico its new health antiaging
It seems to be a psychological thing. If you get a higher hourly/daily rate to make up for the lack of traditional PTO, you feel even worse about taking unpaid time off because you're "losing" even more money.
I'm not assuming anything; I'm just going by what the new lead has been saying. Like everyone else, I'll wait and see. However, it really does seen like they're (finally) listening.
The vast majority of resources in the universe are unavailable to us, and will likely remain so unless we make efficient use of the resources that are available to us.
Tell HN: People don't give a sh*t about privacy
As a recent first-time smartphone owner I've had occasion to research free apps that could help me in some way. Most of the apps I looked at were by all accounts "best-in-class" with endorsements all over the web, social media, installed 100s of 1000s of times and boasting thousands of 5 star ratings.

And i never installed a single one. They all required access to: phone logs, GPS, address book and so on.

The latest was "Hacker's Keyboard". This guy requires address book and, incredibly, HARDWARE - AUDIO RECORDING permissions.

WTF? I'd be literally installing a listening bug on my phone. Yet a great many people don't seem to care.
Exactly, the mentioned researchers haven't done anything with any schematics of the real Intel processor. It's "what we believe we could do if we'd have the control of the production of a processor with the RND like the one described by Intel to exist in their CPU's starting with their Ivy Bridge architecture."

Still, it's interesting to see how such things could be done.
It says "inspired on", not "a replica of". But you're always welcome to fork and improve! https://github.com/wout/svg.clock.js
I think that as people live longer they will have less children as a result, simply because the inner need to procreate and keep humanity alive will die down. We see this in the differences between the first world and third world countries where mortality rates have a significant delta. For instance, In Africa they tend to have more children on average than they do in Europe.
And what about after the fact ? I'm so anxious around people I can't reach emotional responses but later on I do feel for some, it's just something somehow too private, too sensitive.
IOS 7 Out Officially
Like MySpace? I think people should let their tools look the way the want it to, but it always goes downhill from there. It's one of those things where it's better to just keep it simple and standard looking.
It's funny that I read the title and immediately thought "Paper" was some new app or project on Github.
Online conf. w/Hilary Mason, Hadley Wickham, Sinan Aral++ on future of stats
Not only would more die in testing, but more would die in everyday use and results would be so mixed you could hardly get any information out of the experiments.

One of my biggest clients is in the medical device industry. From the surface appearance, any company could make a simulacrum of their main products with perhaps 90% cost-cutting... but life-saving devices are not like inferior iPods or graphic designs. It's not just things like a crappy user interface, poorer display quality and periodic crashes interrupting your musical flow you would have to deal with if any New Jack could make medical devices, but infection, worsened health, extraneous visits to doctors, untraceable health conditions, lack of accountability by your doctor and yes, death through everyday use, etc. After hearing conservative cheapskates bitch about wasted expenses of FDA regulation and liberals bitch about "how easy it is to walk around the FDA," I have come to fully doubt both (read: realize how much they're talking out of their ani) and respect the FDA after working in such close vicinity to them.

And anyway, yes anyone can voluntarily place any therapy in your body- you just can't get a corporation to help you with it in the U.S.
"Fake it till you become it." This is the path I've been on for the last 5 years, and only now am I finally starting to feel a little "natural" in some core social competencies.

But man is it exhausting! All the micromangaging, analyzing, calibrating, and mental preparation. I often require more sleep as a result, guess the brain needs that to adapt.

Related vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc
I get what you're saying, but haven't you ever made a judgement on someone only to later learn more about the circumstances around them and then modify your judgement?

To me, EE is not deserving of the campaign against them. They're not patent trolls - they built a business that added value, and then they applied some spammy marketing to it. Patent trolls deserve to be taken down with a passion. EE, not so much. Thanks again for your comments.
And the only other choice is that nobody gets it ever. There's no third choice. There's no magic wand solution where everyone just magically gets it.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
I relate to a lot of this. I used to have similar traits.

Then I bought a bar--a little neighborhood bar, where it's slow--and worked behind the bar for two years.

It fixed me. Now I feel relaxed just to be me.

I don't think everyone can spend two years behind a bar, but maybe there's something similar you can do. For me it was just lots of forced interaction with all levels of acquaintance, for hours per day, until I became good at social interaction and began to relax.
What do you mean "after the fact"? I don't quite understand your post.
In case you run out of ideas:http://www.1728.org/buzzword.htm
AppNexus Outage Postmortem
I love paper writing, I think it represents one of the very best things of humanity - tool use, abstract thought.

But I really cant disagree with the use of moleskine more. It's paper quality has really gone downhill lately.

So I recommend http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/en - the features are the ones you want (similar to moleskine) and the paper quality is top notch.

Once you have switched to a quality paper, consider using a fountain pen. Aside from the style issues, the pen and writing quality is so awesome. The feel is out of this world, and sends a major signal to other people.
MarlonPro, if you're ever in the market for a new or replacement fountain pen, check out the Lamy Safari[1]. I have written with very expensive (OMAS, MtBlanc, Caran D'Ache, ...) fountain pens and the Lamy Safari is better than most (and dirt cheap!).
http://www.lamyusa.com/fountain_main_safari.php
Cyanogen gets $7M funding, aims at building a better version of Android
See this link for more details on that : http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~max/docs/okws.pdf
"Do not return total counts or loop through entire databases to get the large count"

How do you achieve this on a practical level? I'm pretty new to this kind of thing and I've been coming up against this in my code, getting the totals have been a headache.
...responsively.
It's OK Kevin. We all make mistakes, but when one acknowledges and honestly apologizes, it deserves appreciation. So thank you and take care.

Oh, and, the world is not that big, so I'll keep in mind that beer ;)
It functioned as a black hole of good advice, adding no useful value beyond acting as a gatekeeper, and made it more difficult to find actual help by both a) attracting answers that would have been publicly posted and b) obscuring search results making it more difficult to find other sources.

They had a net negative effect on the world.
Bear in mind I consider everything you just said to themselves be failures to allow for a free market. Patents are government monopolies, not creations of a free market.

(To which the natural next slur is "Oh, you want no regulation then?" No, I strongly believe a free market requires some basic maintenance to harness properly, and I'm a particular fan of internalizing externalities via government action. However, virtually by definition, if patents are being "abused", that is not maintenance; that's sand in the gears.)

I consider the idea that we live in some sort of anarchic free market wonderland today to be nothing more than propaganda, used by those who want to use government to take even more control over your life. There's very few free segments of the modern market that are even remotely free; they simply aren't as centrally managed and regulated as they could be.
I agree, but existence is so much more important than availability at this point in history.

Accelerate existence by whatever means necessary; availability will follow.
The current friction point is loading the CM-OS onto your existing device (rooting, boot loaders, ./adb push, etc).

Offering a self-service tool that does it - either on the phone or via USB is something many will pay $20-$50 for I would guess.

Once you've got the OS on the phone, you can offer your own App Store (potentially along side the Google Play store), auto-install apps and perhaps set defaults like search engine to be google-competitors in return for revenue.

They might also sell direct to OEMS, especially smaller handset OEMS, so the OEM doesn't have to worry about participating in the Android ecosystem directly.
That was time and money well spent.
I'm fine with having internal enemies, but I think it goes beyond decency to name someone publicly you want to "take down" - especially if that company is actually providing value, albeit not in the way you want them to.
Tiny changes like going to 64 bits, UIKit Dynamics, Text Kit…
Well, to be fair, it is - http://www.fiftythree.com/paper
(Not new, but an app, and an awesome one at that)
Not sure about the impact of the so-called public campaign(which - to my perspective - just seemed to be a few comments) - I just stopped using EE when the SEO crap started. I didn't start seeing SO links until some time later - until then I trawled through forums and other less centralized resources for answers.

The problem I had with SE wasn't really the paywall (or fake-out paywall in case of below-the-fold). Well: okay, that was a problem in that once it started, I stopped using them. But I didn't blame them for that by itself - they have to make money. I just felt that the value EE gave me in terms of the quality of its answers didn't justify the money they wanted, so I moved on.

The problem was really the spamming. This is when I took an active dislike to EE - paywall content completely consumed the first page or two of search results to any technical question I searched for on Google. Or link farms that fed into paywalled EE content. That was when I started getting actively annoyed about it - but this was several months after I stopped using it.

I think "mistreating" is perfectly appropriate in this context - because during this window, it actually cost me valuable time to not use EE. Time spent paging through results, clicking on link farms before I realized they were link farms -- time that could have been spent actually working on the solution of my problem of the moment.

I'm not disputing that the CEO did what he thought was necessary. But there's no questoin that he picked wrong, and it's a little disingenuous to claim that the fact the company needed to earn money somehow made his choice more acceptable.
Haha, I love that so much I might try it myself.
I haven't noticed that but odd since "he" is gender specific pronoun while "she" is not. To me, the use of "her" is a the opposite of gender equality.

(I'm not a native English speaker)
How Poverty Takes Over the Mind
Yes, you are correct that using any proprietary web service has the same downsides, which is why I have taken it upon myself to avoid as many of them as possible and support free, decentralized alternatives.

I do use github to host my source code currently, but it would be trivial for me to move to a free service such as gitorious, or a gitlab instance, or my own server running cgit or gitweb.

What do you mean you can self-host GitHub? GitHub is not free software.
Doom Piano is a piano that plays Doom, naturally
No Mobilism 2014
What great evil did Experts Exchange do?

The very question that is asked is a straw man argument. Nobody is saying that Experts Exchange did some great evil (ex: genocide). What they did was build a business model based on taking from many and giving to nobody. Then to preserve that unsustainable business model, they used various underhanded search engine manipulations.

To me, they were jerks. When Google came out with the ability to filter domains from your personal results, they were the first (and only) domain I added.

Even to this day, they will show you the answer if you scroll through 5 pages of gunk. They didn't do any "great evil". They're just slimy and I get a bad taste in my mouth anytime I think about them. But at least they added that hyphen to their name at some point because for a while I couldn't NOT see it as ExpertSexChange.com.
> Imagine you’re running EE in 2009 [...] You also have a new competitor who is doing everything for free. You have a few options, as I see it

This makes it sound like EE resorted in gray hat SEO at least in part as a response to SO. A quick Googling found they were doing this from at least 2006 [1]

[1] http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=11974
Yes I'll just quit my job and magically start making money from home. This site is getting shit.
Give me one example of a database with a programming language ( or its abbreviation ) in its name? "im" could stand for in-memory.
IOS 7 Now Available for Download
Thank you for adding to the discussion. It's interesting to find out how empathetic people are toward corporations. There is apparently quite a bit of variance.
It's pretty easy for language authors to integrate with Sprockets in Ruby on Rails. They just need to write an interface for Tilt (http://github.com/rtomayko/tilt) . Though that interface needs to be written in Ruby, not JS.
Dying isn't horrible at all. It's a part of the lifecycle.
Econometricians looked at the news business, and it isn’t pretty
Loopback is the middleware api glue for making rich mobile apps enterprise grade. This should enable us to build apps which can actually access data locked in enterprise data stores very quickly
It's worthy of scorn. There's no debate here. You're trying to bail out the tide with an apologia for a pretty universally disliked company.
> Quickly send photos I just took to put in email, IMs or on web forums.

All the photos you just took are available via Photostream on all your other devices, assuming you have WiFi, which presumably you'd need for Dropbox. If you don't like firing up iPhoto or Aperture to see your photo stream on the desktop, there are "apps for that".

If you don't want an app, here's how to put a shortcut to your latest photos right on your dock:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57555169-285/access-your...
Bullet Holes, Persistence and Startups with Bowei Gai
A Skyscraper That Can Disappear Using High-Tech Camouflage
Margins are an indication of how much you're getting screwed by your supplier.

Now don't get me wrong, a number of Apple-users are rational beings. They actually argue to me that they get huge value from iDevices, and I'm fine with that. If its your cup of tea, yes, go on and get it. (And I won't call these guys part of the iCult. Rational Apple-users are indeed... rational).

However, people like you argue that high margins are a good thing. NO THEY'RE NOT. Margins are:
* Cost of the device MINUS cost that Apple spent to create the device

The larger the margin, the more Apple is screwing you out of your money. Period. No rational consumer should EVER be happy about being conned out of tons and tons of money.

And to see these idiotic members of the iCult, so proud... so happy to waste money, and BRAG about the margins that Apple is stealing from them... it really is enough to make me lose faith in the free market.

Remember, in a free-market with perfect competition, profits approach zero. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition / http://www.economicprofit.org/Zero-Economic-Profit.html. Consumers in a free market should NEVER be pleased when they learn that the products they buy are leading to record-breaking profits on top of record-breaking margins for a company.
ok, i see. you're not hyping your launch, which is
gonna happen in the next few weeks. instead, you're
hyping the "fact" that you're not hyping your launch
(which, nonetheless, is happening in a couple weeks).

great. that's brave. thanks for keeping us up-to-date.

-bowerbird
What really isn't mentioned here in the threads, and the thing that really caught my eye, was the inspections. The notations of where potential errors were in the code. This is amazing, and would make code reviews so much easier.