skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, it needs a much better explanation of what it does. I tried the home page and the addons page. I have no clue what the hell this thing does. It combines Wikipedia and Google results in some way? I don't see how that's relevant. Your current tagline is way too technical and buzzwordy. Explain to me what I'm getting while dumbing it down as much as you can.

Example: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html This presentation is confusing as fuck and waaaaay too verbose. I have to weed through 10 slides of diagrams and explanations to figure out what this thing is about? No thanks!

Edit: Actually, what's really missing is a use case or example. Everything's telling me how this is useful and very advanced stuff and how awesome it's supposed to be, but I have no clue how I'd use it and what I would use it for. Both of those questions could be solved by a good demonstration. Usually when you have something as complex as this, examples are the best way to dumb it down and get the point across easily.
That's the snake oil part of it all. As far as I understand it, they aren't regulating how a particular band is being used in the sense that broadcasters can split bands up into multiple streams and just compress the heck out of them. You can have one high-quality movie channel or 8 highly compressed ones lets say. I agree, digital means NOTHING in and of itself in terms of quality.
The author says that exploring inner worlds instead of the real universe "...It could be incredible, or unfathomably horrible..."

I think its much more likely over hundreds of years it will just slowly degrade into complete inaction and senility -- a species reaching its old age.
Maybe they should start by implementing the async attribute for script tags. It's sorely needed in FF and Opera.

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-script-async
So would any baby she might have had, or (some) sexually transmitted diseases she could have caught, also if she dropped out or failed out of HS, that'd still be there too.

Interestingly, those other things are not illegal.
The guts of the iPhone 3GS
Authors, poets replace reporters at an Israeli newspaper for one day
Name one other.
This is one of those situations where you evaluate who sent you the invite. My aunt who can barely figure out her Macbook: don't click on it. Cool friend who knows tech: click on it. Guess which one invited me to Tagged?
Sorry, I should have posted this in my comment: http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/amp606581.pdf

It's not a single study; it's a meta-review of dozens of well-controlled studies on gender differences from 1984 to 2005.
As frustrating as this is, I don't see any real reason for Apple to change it's stance (other than fairness). People will complain yes, but enough devs will keep submitting apps so Apple has little reason to start paying them more respect.
Until developers stop submitting apps wholesale, I doubt much will change.

The REAL buggaboo though, is that this is going to have the opposite effect that Apple wants. Instead of getting more high-quality submissions, they will start to get more stuff that can be devved in a small amount of time. The risk of getting rejected is just too great to justify putting a huge amount of time into one app.
You are right. I used to think as a kid that technical fields would be devoid of this kind of bullshit, but it turns out that almost any type of organization of people with more than 20 members has some these types in prominent positions.
Just an awesome interview. Everyone needs to check this out.
Hahahah...

Hairy balls.
You can protect yourself against this by disabling a:visited. Here's a Firefox plugin that does it intelligently, without breaking the functionality on sites where you actually clicked a link.

http://safehistory.com/
Hrm, that's a good use I suppose. Never used one in that way though.

Excuse my mood, shouldn't be commenting today I suppose.
If I were running a retail store, I wouldn't stock the low-priced ones either. I would imagine they've got a lower profit margin, and HDMI cables don't go bad frequently enough to count on someone purchasing cables on a regular basis. Might as well charge as much as they'll spend on the rare occasion that the cables get sold. There is a finite amount of space in a retail location, so there has to be an expected return on value for every inch of real estate.
As long as it gets people to not use IE6, it's doing the world a favor
I may just be a bit of an antique ;-), but I like to be able to do an initial evaluation of a website / product without enabling scripting. If I'm interested enough and develop a basic trust, I may enable scripting and investigate further.

I'm not criticizing the use of scripting in the product or its website. I'd just like to be able to form a bit more of an impression without needing to enable it.

I like the concept of merging Wikipedia and Google results (and/or other combinations). I've been growing increasingly dissatisfied with direct search engine results; it's taking longer and longer to find the decent content within all the noise.
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Samsung S8300 Tocco phone has features latest and updated versions of softwares and hardwares. The phone gives you following features like 8 MP of camera with screen resolution of 3264×2448 pixels with autofocus and LED flash and Geo tagging.
"Art is not about making more realistic copies."

True, but video games aren't simply visual art, like a painting. Photorealism can help immerse you into the game's fiction, which can definitely make the game less boring.
I recently spent a year at HP labs. It was a very interesting place, operating more like an academic department than a software development organization. The staff members worked more or less on what interested them. They would vie for sponsorship of their projects, often doing things in two or three different official groups. Every year the projects would be peer reviewed and sponsorship would be based, more or less, on the results. Of course, if lab management or higher ups liked your project, it didnt matter what your peers thought. The pace was very relaxed compared to a startup, except around the individual's deadline for the submission of a paper.

I suppose the Labs suited the corporate need for innovation. It supplied new ideas that could be factored back into the corporation. But the really disruptive ideas seem to come out of nowhere in the startup scene. Sure, AltaVista came out of Digital Labs, but Digital, the corporation didnt seem to know what to do with it. Then Google came out of nowhere and took over the world.

I had been at HP labs a couple of months when I met Jaap for more than a brief introduction. Afterward I asked the lead researcher for the project I was on who Jaap was. He replied, "Oh, he's your boss." It seems I had 4 bosses: the Architect in charge of implementation, the Business Manager who represented the VP outside of Labs, the Researcher who's project it was, and Jaap who paid me.
18 months is an eternity in a world where Facebook itself is 5 years old.
"[Men] are immune to the allure of this fantasy. They have evaluated the site on purely economic terms and found it wanting."

Interesting that HN just had an article by Philip Greenspun saying women are too practical to enter the science field: http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
I think it would be better to delete the eintire paragraph above your addition, as the notion that this theorem guarantees at least one cyclone somewhere on earth is ridiculous.
Great, so now there's recurring revenue in it for the business that sells subscriptions to targeted lists.
Fun with Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables
"Trendy Things to Thoughtless People" would be a great name for a magazine. (Not necessarily a new magazine; I can think of many that fit the bill.)
Umm ... guys I take back my statement. Bill is one of the world greatest philanthropists. Despite the shortcomings of this particular campaign lots of MS $ are going to charity through the Bill and Mellinda Foundation.

Saying this will cost me some karma but trust me my real world karma will go up having realised how unfair my critique was.
See? Market validation :D
All the previous demos I'd seen used JS to observe link colors, so this was news to me.
1) We use references and external links brought and qualified by 8.5 millions people (the Wikipedia community).
2) We send more than 20 searches to Google when you post a URL to Webzzle. We examine the results for you, filter and presents the best. It saves time and you get much better quality results. Try to explore from a Linkedin profile page for example. You'll get better Google results for instance.
The usual problem we face is that when we explain the tech, people get lost. We try only to speak about the feature. I can tell a lot about the tech. We work on Webzzle since 1999. But it has been hard to bring the Object technology to the users.
In that case, why blog, write, code or think? The statement may be true in some cases but it's not useful or helpful unless you have an overinflated sense of ego, or you spend all of your time reinventing the wheel. The attitude this lends itself to is one of "well, nobody has done this, so that must mean it's impossible." Direct observation of the world proves that conclusion wrong time and again.
I'm confused. How did tagged get his contact list? If he's dumb enough to enter his username and password from gmail or whatever into some spam of the week website, then its his fault.

Or does tagged get that information some other way, like a partnership with yahoo or something?
Move beyond just games :)
We need scripts because of the Ajax autocomplete feature and because of the concepts selection mechanism to build an object query. That's all. Thanks for your comment. With a growing community (lke the one of Wikipedia), Webzzle can bring more and more value everyday to our quest of knowledge.
Much of the Enlightenment was centered around that ideal - that authority figures do not have all the answers, but reason provides us with a means to figure them out. And it turned out to be quite successful - it brought us modern science, and evidence-based medicine, and the industrial revolution, and most of the progress of the last four centuries.
You're right. I understand what you mean. I'll do it.
I'm not sure this is the case, because yesterday I did all of the updates that Apple advised, but I didn't get Safari 4 with that. Today I manually downloaded it.

For what it's worth, it is significantly faster than Safari 3.
> I like seeing my mistakes and reasons for doing things.

I suppose the point of Linus' rant is: would you want other people to see your mistakes? (goes without saying you would want them to see your reasons for doing things.)
Another interesting data point: Kary Mullis, the inventor of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR, aka DNA amplification), credits LSD with helping him to make his discovery -- and thanked Albert Hofmann, LSD's inventor, personally.

LSD is a tool, not a toy. Bandsaws are fun too, but people lose fingers.
My biggest usability issue (at least since the 4 beta) is the tab behavior. It just doesn't work like I expect it to.
Ask YC: Review Trendly, new analytics app from the folks behind Dabble DB
The Future is Parallel: What's a Programmer to do? [pdf]
If everything's working fine with both cables, there is no appreciable quality different between digital and analog.
Well, this is the medical establishment's party line on apnea -- complete with arrogance, condescension and non-sense.

I am questioning the differential pressure theory of apnea causing throat collapse. That is basic physics and the assumption behind CPAP. Your reply that even if people block on exhale "CPAP should be quite effective anyway" is non-sense on your own terms. Throat pressure is positive on exhale (even without CPAP) and blockage would be impossible since no forces could be generated to cause a collapse. You haven't heard about blockage on exhale because its impossible according to the current theory and so no one is looking for it.

I am not deny that CPAP works for some people but its really only around 30%. The medical statistics say its 100% effective "when used correctly" because they drop the people from the stats who are "non-compliant". Given that apnea is a horrible condition, do you think those that drop CPAP are not being helped? Ultimately, people give up in frustration and are accused of being too fat and too lazy to use the CPAP and diet. Blame the patient. Is it possible that cause and effect works the other way -- that its easy to get fat and difficult to lose wt when one is obstructing because of the lack of energy and will-power? Is it possible that CPAP only works with certain types of apnea and is ineffective otherwise? How does the current theory explain the large numbers of apnea patients who are not overweight?

I have apnea, I am not overweight and I block on exhale. I know because I've "caught" it occurring a number of times on waking. When I explained this to my doc he laughed in my face and said it was impossible. Another doc said I was just dreaming. I think they are both wrong and that the current theory of apnea is incomplete. Something not due to differential pressure blocks my throat, like a backflow valve, on exhale while I sleep. I can't imagine that I am the only one with this type and I think it might be fairly common.

Anyway, the reason for my post is not to harangue you but in the hope that a medical researcher or doctor will hear of this alternative view and reexamine apnea and its treatment with fresh eyes and an open mind.
more/links?
Saw this on reddit the other day and the link was to:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/PhilippeRinguetteAngrignon/20...

I can't tell if the link posted here is to the gamasutra article author's personal blog, or if it's just ripped off content.
Perhaps we are already sliding into senility:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654578

Maybe capitalism and digital networks are a dead-end? Perhaps we will just be pulled into ever-faster cycles of incomprehensible introspection and cultural remixing? Perhaps only a few species ever escape this trap, which is why we've never seen any.
Selling MSFT stock to fund a charity is not the same thing as MSFT funding that charity.
Quick sanity check.

Cost to you: 0

If you happen to be one more "extra" click that goes over the $1m cap, fine you aren't out anything. However, the cost to someone else leaving Microsoft's money on the table could actually be their life.

Just don't paint it as anything different than what it is. This isn't charity money. This is marketing money.

If we don't collectively use all of it up it isn't going to the Gates Foundation, it's going to more "I'm a PC" ads.
seriously. i've gotten a number of Tagged spams from unsavvy folks over the years. the tagged people are just dbs.
Good point. Still, my Xbox 360 is perfectly happy pumping out my video games in 1080i over component. Admittedly I don't watch very much studio-restricted content.
From the Self-Aware VC to Synchronizing Modular Innovations
Any chance of getting a demo like Dabble's?

I assume you did this one in Seaside as well? Every time I see a project you've done it makes me want to fire up a Smalltalk image and try it out again.
Why wasn't blackberry included?
You're still just explaining the process, but not what the results actually are. What do I use this for? What are these results? I understand that you're pooling Wikipedia and Google together, but I don't get at all how that benefits me.

Try to condense it to less than 10 words and in a phrase that describes what I get out of it.
As a non-user, you would be genuinely surprised at what strategic use of certain psychedelic drugs can do, even -- especially -- if your brain works great just the way it is.

Reliance on drugs is unfortunate, and in the case of psychedelics, it's ineffective as well. But don't think that e.g. LSD couldn't show you something new.
We prototyped it in Seaside, but the end product is actually Seaside-free. We do use some Smalltalk though.
Yeah, I'll do a screencast at some point, but it's way too much effort to do that until we've finalized the UI - and we want feedback from y'all first :)
Google App Engine needs something like this.
There already is a Firefox plugin for that (http://safehistory.com/). NoScript, unsurprisingly, is only for JavaScript.
About three years ago was the summer of 2006. This was about the time the first Intel-based MacBooks dropped. Everyone in the office bought one, it seems. Within a month they were all in the shop.

I bought a Compaq Presario v3000 with dual-core AMD Turion. It was my primary machine for three years. Not a single hardware issue to date. (Admittedly, shiny screen.)

The quality of Intel Macs has improved since then, of course. But if your wallet isn't that thick, from what I hear from friends who bought them, Compaq/HP still produce quality kit at an affordable price.
I really don't see how you can think games haven't improved since the days of Megaman where there was absolutely no story, you just shot things and ran right.

Well, I think that is one of the points. The emphasis on story has distracted from gameplay details somewhat. "Just shot things and ran right" is really terrible way to describe how Megaman was actually played. Despite the author's apparent lack of experience with modern games, but the approach of evaluating what you actually do while playing and how enjoyable it is, is worthwhile.
I don't think most games are intended as "art" in any high sense, but only as "entertainment". Personally, I'd find it awesome if WoW looked more realistic. (If you're not familiar with the graphic style of World of Warcraft, it's very cartoony, even crayony).
Apparently it crashes Chrome.
Bit different. The GPL doesn't require that the source code be immediately available. And if they had just said "sure, we'll go ahead and send that out, it will take a month to process and then however long mail takes", well... there's absolutely no GPL violation there.
this is an excellent point.

At least if someone is confident and then wrong you can learn not to trust them. Someone who always hedges may never be quite as wrong, but is far less useful to a manager.

In an organizational structure it's not about one person being right, it's about the organization making a decision.
Nice links, thanks. From New Scientist article:

"We have some indication from very old literature that an unrelated plant might have the same adaptation," says Cornelissen. "If that can be confirmed, then snow roots have evolved at least twice independently."

The age of descriptive natural history is largely gone; we mine the knowledge of our predecessors.

We are now in an age of descriptive molecular biology.
Someone should start a campaign to push downloading of Firefox and Chrome as well as donating to Feeding America. I'm sure we could donate more than $1 million. I realize this someone should probably be me, but I'm lazy.
So here's the thing: I'm not going to give you my Google Analytics until you show me a compelling reason to. "We track Google Analytics" doesn't mean anything to me, an intrigued audience, yet skeptical of and resistant to just installing shit willy-nilly.

Install it on the company blog or something.
There is no place for this kind of offensive behavior in a public forum. There is also the responsibility of the organizers to pull the plug on the display, the microphone, and the speaker. The members of the audience have a responsibility to hiss, boo, and shout.
The Ham Sandwich Theorem
Agreed that the front page is light on info/screenshots etc. Did you click the "how it works" link?
Is it wrong because the earth is not a perfect sphere, or for some other reason?
The about page might be useful for you:

http://trendly.com/about/
The four points at the end of the article suggest pets.com 2.0 more than any lasting success.
The similarities are really more between Beanstalkd and RabbitMQ, the backend message-queuing system used by Celery. Most of the interesting bits of Celery to me is in the response handling, which lets you get the result of a deferred job after the fact without the usual busywork of correlating message IDs and managing result queues.

That being said, sometimes a more bare-bones solution like talking directly to Beanstalkd or an AMQP service makes sense. This can be especially true if you're dealing with a mixed-language environment where jobs may not share a class library or easy RPC.
Yeah, it's starting to sound like something I'm going to just have to muddle through. The main reason I'm embarking on this project is just as a learning expedition more than anything else. So implementing everything from scratch is not necessarily bad.
Ask HN: What are the best data warehouse and BI resources in print and online?  
I started formally practicing data analytics a little under a year ago. Since then, I’ve really ramped up my Ruby, C++ (w. boost), bash, and (especially) MySQL skills. I’ve always been a MS Excel geek, but I love the power, versatility, and reusability of MySQL charged Ruby scripts. Excel is now just the final step for most of my analytics and market intelligence reports. I use Excel to generate pretty graphs, and to calculate the occasional statistical distribution or linear optimization. I’m at the point where I will still need to do these types of things, but I would like to expand into other things that I think will help the stake holders at my company. Real time dashboards with our key business metrics, recurring automated reports, and (possibly) automatic neural networks. This is the type of stuff that a good Business Intelligence (BI) solution would provide painlessly.

After a bit of research around the internet, I discovered that I need a rock solid data warehouse if I’m going to effectively implement any of the BI products out there. My question is this: What are the best books and online hidden gems about building data warehouses? I need to fully understand not just why a certain method will work better for my circumstances, but also how to implement that method. Code examples are a must. I’m willing to spend a fair bit of time and money on learning this and I know no other place to turn for trustworthy advice. Thanks a ton, you guys and gals are the best!
Mono implements a standard from a convicted monopolist who has a stake in dominating the market the standard affects.

AT&T was barred by consent decree from entering the computer industry. Unix and C were, by the standards of the day, practically given away, and AT&T couldn't use the control over these they had to unfairly outcompete other companies.
You could use mushrooms, which is much easier to dose and does pretty much the same thing.
Mobile Phone As Home Computer (2005)
I would love to! The other day I was trying to figure out why a particular bit of code was added to libpoppler, but the author had compressed all his commits into one massive 800 line commit. Totally useless to me.
you entrepreneurs are a serious bunch. I'll remember be solemn and serious in the future. I brought up a valid point though, random adults shouldn't be asking to see nude images and videos of teens, even if it is purportedly to help out. Its one thing for teens to send them to each other. Its an entirely different thing for a school administrator to request the images. There is no benefit for him doing this.
From my experience, Flash has only ever worked optimally in Internet Explorer for Mac OS 9.x. Every other platform sucked hind tit. These days I bet Windows takes priority.
But they have some work to do on the semantics.
Hockey is an event of the summer olympics:)
http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?Spor...
You may want to include a link to the "how it works" section from http://trendly.com/preview/.

When I went to the site, I clicked "try it now" before I read to the bottom of the page, and once I got there, I didn't want to sign in. Maybe say something like "Not ready yet? See how it works" or something like that.
The article it links to has much more content:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/11/why_apple_keep...