skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Huh! Perhaps it's a fault of the virtualization software, then? I'm using a Macbook Pro, the drivers of which I'd assume are in fairly common use, but I can't get audio to work properly. Would virtualization have anything to do with that?
For many people out there Windows and IE were the first and the only. Those were the symbols of a computer and internet. It's hard to give up on a symbol, right?

Also, while FF was gaining traction among SOHO users, the large corporation defaulted (and still do) to IE, for various reasons. For many of them, it was unthinkable for IE to be replaced by any contender. And even should it get replaced, they want to be compatible with the large body of other corporations sticking to IE.

Last but not least, the typical web developer of this day is well capable of developing correct FF code. It wasn't necessarily the case years ago.
there should be a law that prohibits passing of any major policy bills (except emergency ones) in say 3 months preceding the election.
Perhaps we should target not the eye but the periphery? The point would be not so much to destroy as deflect the hurricane while also fragmenting it. Instead of dropping one in the eye, blow up several nukes around it.

Another point to consider is we can try to use a nuclear explosion in order to prevent a hurricane from forming if we catch it early enough. Is that possible?

I do doubt that we can routinely nuke hurricanes (even ignoring the radiation effects), but looking at just the mechanical effects, I think it would be interesting to take another look at the picture. I am not sure that the effects of turbulence can be calculated, but how much can we get from the first principles?

BTW, Hiroshima was about 15 kt, if I am not mistaken, and the average modern nuke is on the order of 400 kt.
I understand, and agree with your overall point, and trust me when I say I'm not a Google fanboy or Apple-hater. But I honestly can't imagine any smartphone being released in the future without a proper touchscreen. It's become such an integral part of the smartphone experience, and as you said, completely changes the way a user can interact with a device or an application.

The rest of the divergence in hardware is not a total gamechanger though: the screen resolution/DPI, screen orientation, etc. Those aren't gamechangers like a touchscreen is, and touchscreens are here to stay anyways.

If devices like the G1 and iPhone can sell with a great multitouch screen for $100, then there's no point in selling a smartphone without one, and a consumer would be stupid (IMO) to pay for one without it.

So if we take the touchscreen as a done-deal, then everything else divergent is a non-issue. Android makes it a piece of cake to optimize for them, without having to redesign or rewrite your entire application. And at that point, the variety of hardware is your friend, helping to increase your potential market.

That's all I was trying to get at.
My girlfriend is a musician and my one wish from the startup community working in the music scene is to kill both "management" and the bookies.

If anybody is working on democratizing event organization, marketing and ticket sales, you have our full support, participation and feedback. Ask away and I/she will tell you.
If the anti-sec group is for keeping exploits private, won't this _increase_ demand for add-on security band-aids like firewalls and virus scanners? More undisclosed vulnerabilities means one should increase the layers of security solutions for less chance of all of them being privately exploitable at any given time.

.. Or are they implying that script kiddies are the only problem, and the el8 crackers can never be stopped, so don't even try? (but don't worry, they have 'ethics' !)

(side note: "And who knows what new crimes the hackers will dream up next?". The actual question is what new crimes will the government will dream up next! Silly lawlyers.)
The difference is that the satellites' 230 W/m^2 is in a very narrow frequency band, and can thus be harvested and converted efficiently, where solar radiation is mainly at much higher frequencies, and, more importantly, spread out over a wide spectrum of frequencies. Our current best methods for converting these high-frecuency photons (solid state solar cells) only work well around a specific design frequency, and so they can convert only a limited part of the solar spectrum.
I don't tend to judge non-white as criminals. I tend to judge white man in black suits wearing sunglasses and big moustaches as criminals.
"It used to be in India, but now it is San Francisco. All our gurus are moving there to open ashrams."

That made me laugh. Maybe I'm too cynical, but my explanation is a lot less noble than what the author implies...

Also note the date of the article. A good reminder that maybe a bit of humility and some critical thinking (in the sense in which it contrasts "automatic openness to new ideas") can be a good thing now and then.
Because encryption hides the data content, whereas you need it in the clear to computationally manipulate it in a useful way, at least with conventional computational frameworks. How is a program going to make a decision at a control flow point if the data it needs to make the decision is encrypted? And if the data's not encrypted, and you're running on untrusted hardware, then it's compromised.
The US is fine with dual-citizenship, it just doesn't encourage it because it can make certain policy issues a bit more awkward.

Sources:

".U.S. law does not mention dual nationality or require a person to choose one citizenship or another. Also, a person who is automatically granted another citizenship does not risk losing U.S. citizenship. However, a person who acquires a foreign citizenship by applying for it may lose U.S. citizenship. In order to lose U.S. citizenship, the law requires that the person must apply for the foreign citizenship voluntarily, by free choice, and with the intention to give up U.S. citizenship." [1]

"Dual nationality can also occur when a person is naturalized in a foreign state without intending to relinquish U.S. nationality and is thereafter found not to have lost U.S. citizenship: the individual consequently may possess dual nationality. While recognizing the existence of dual nationality and permitting Americans to have other nationalities, the U.S. Government also recognizes the problems which it may cause." [2]

[1]: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html

[2]: http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_778.html
The power-spectral density is the fourier-transform of the autocorrelation of a time series. So yes, it is the transform dual. But doing the straight autocorrelation immediately gives you the number of lags before the series repeats itself and is probably the best way to attack that type of problem.
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exactly, but the blog post argues that there is a market for this
The maximize on Mac OS X works, then concept is different from Windows. Maximize does not necessarily mean "fill the whole screen with one window" under OS X, but that doesn't mean it is broken. Play around with Preview to get it.
Yes, that's exactly the problem.

- There is no upload bandwidth and we still acuiqre most of our backupable data offline (via cameras, HDs, etc.)

- I am sure Chrome OS will make online acquired data backupable in a push button way.

Given these two obvious points, I don't see the reason why that blog post was written. Not to mention they forgot to mention S3, and others you mention.

May be Amazon will make Kindle 3.0 a netbook and compete with Google?
People who are educated in micro typography (The field of Graphic Design distinguised between macro and micro typography), see this difference instantly and everywhere. It's like reading: onec learned you automatically process whe you see letters.
(Replying to myself because I don't have time to wait for a stupid AI to give me a reply link.)

If it's true that most future phones will be so much like the iPhone hardware that the differences in software design are moot... Why is Google trying to proclaim that being able to run on all kinds of hardware is some sort of great advantage?

This is a rhetorical question, BTW. I don't think that Google is being stupid. I think they know what they're doing, and if I were their PR guy I'd probably say the same thing. But I'm not, so I can afford to chuckle out loud. :)

One thing to remember about Google is that their core business is promotion. It doesn't matter, ultimately, if a fight promoter's boxers win or lose. What matters is that they fill the arena and the promoter gets a big cut of the ticket sales. If Google gets a piece of the action every time some poor hardware company puts out an "iPhone killer", that will be a "scalable business".
More information about Anti-sec:

http://romeo.copyandpaste.info/
That's not quite correct. They didn't give Apple $46m. The $46m that they're "giving up" is money they would never have had otherwise. The town had 2 choices:

1) Don't give any tax break. Apple will likely go elsewhere, and the town doesn't get any additional tax revenue.

2) Give Apple a break on some fraction of their taxes, amounting to $46m. They will still get some tax revenue from Apple.

It's like saying a store is giving money when it puts a product on sale. The town is just lowering the price to sell more goods.
It was never about taking market share from some other mobile OS. Google's main objective here is to put pressure on carriers and handset makers. They need high end phones with good web browsers to become the norm. More people using these phones mean more people using the mobile web (and therefore Google's services).
Intel: We created Chrome OS with Google
Chip makers Intel, have announced publicly that they have been participating in the development of Chrome OS.

With the highly anticipated release of Google’s own operating system, many of us considered that Google couldn’t launch an operating on their own. Thus, Google’s Sundar Pichai confirmed this rumour and unveiled a list on Wednesday quoting,....
The advantage of using well known corpora is that they are also 'tagged' so later on you can extend your text analysis. Text analysis is addictive, the more you do the more you want. Another option is the British National Corpus at probably around twenty pounds for the cd, with over a million words. The latter is also available in XML.

I had a similar situation about two years ago. I did some research on blogs. As a sideline the word 'blogs' does not even appears once in the British National Corpus! This put an end to me comparing against known corpora.

Quick and dirty solution. Write your own routines. At the time I used PHP! Python is a better option but my Python skills were limited. I spidered blogs (with cURL). If the word 'blogger' 'blogroll' or 'comments' appeared I spidered further.

Once I had 20,000 pages I started calculations. As you add to the corpus your statistics change, so you need to find an efficient method of calculating all these. With PHP I was able to download on average one page per 20 seconds.

Your stop words need to also evolve as you go on, things like RSS, will crop up all the time, you would also think that 'wordpress' is one of the most common words in English! This led me to the next stage polishing up some form of pre-processor for cleaning up HTML. (Most Classes out there are not adequate, they tend to leave items in such as CSS style etc..). I used tidy believe it or not, very effectively for quick pre-processing. (Helped a lot to just identify only the <body>).

Other adventures along the way was downloading books from the Gutenberg Organization and using them as corpora.
The iPhone will scale just like the iPod scaled. There are a few different models and sizes to fit different peoples needs. The world doesn't need 1000 different phones running Android, and I doubt that's even on Google's agenda. They want Android to be the fabled "operating system for any electric device". Apple hasn't even shown any interest in this business model at all, ever! You could easily flip this article around by saying "Unlike iPhone, Android Runs on Low Quality Products".
We owe Nikola Tesla a lot. He was a genius and is one of my inspirations. If you don't know so much about him, see this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1LqxG49DLk

Wireless power was one of his ideas and we are still only scratching the surface of that. There are so many more...
What you call useless is called either "branding" or "orientation" by certain professionals.
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Short term versus long term benefit. If you are selling something with a long term benefit, you need to find a way to make that appealing. For those who live more in the moment (for whatever reason; not necessarily as a zen master), you will need to make that benefit seem immediate. I guess the trick is to do that without being dishonest.

Perhaps that's why the "path" and "journey" metaphors are so common. The destination is some ways off, but you can set your foot on the path immediately and "enjoy the journey" all along the way.

There is also the negative sale: Stop doing what you don't like. (Implied: My product is part of what you like. Start doing it.)

Perhaps the constant advertising is then what continues to make it seem immediate, in lieu of immediate effects of the product itself. The pill doesn't cure you overnight, but the advertising keeps telling you it will, eventually. Keep popping it. The advertising is the immediate, Ersatz payoff.

Just off the top of my head.

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As for me, I don't have a specific product I'm marketing, but I tend to push both aspects in my interactions with others, e.g. when helping/training them. I quickly fix an immediate problem. I then, and concurrently to the extent possible, explain what I did, how it works -- enough for them to see that they might be able to do this as well. Push/encourage them to run through the process as well; reinforces memory and convinces them that they actually CAN do this. Provide references and my continued availability, should they wish to pursue this further.

I fix their problem: Pain killer. I show them how and that they can do this for themselves: Vitamin.

For those who refuse to take the vitamin, the trick is to cut them off from the painkiller (your assistance) before they become addicted.

Unless providing the painkiller forms the basis of your relationship, e.g. your continued employment. Just beware that such a relationship can turn turn pretty unhealthy. There's a difference between collaboration and dependence.
"Mythryl is currently supported only on 32-bit x86 Linux."

It sounds cool, but bootstrapping elsewhere would probably be a huge pain. (I port stuff, and generally work on 64-bit AMD OpenBSD.)

Too bad, really - I would love to see a more "mainstream" dialect of ML than OCaml.
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One of the blog entries of independent journalist Michael Yon describes an informal interview of a young Kurdish woman soon after the overthrow of Saddam.

Yon said that the Kurds had no material resources, but a can-do attitude. He described the young woman as extremely self-confident.

Asked about her plans for the future, she said she wanted to emigrate to France, hang out with the cool people there for a while, then move to San Francisco. (France and SF are respectively the number one and two tourist destinations, BTW.)

So, by "the spiritual center of the world," what the Indians in the article might have meant is that SF is the best place they know of for a person to live.

And I do not scoff at that notion.
There is a camp of economists who enjoy applying math which is far too complicated for the situation. It's great fun.
I agree with most of what you say, but it's important to remember that antibiotics actually work. Antivirus is pretty much on the same level as leaches and bleeding, if we want to keep going with the medical analogy. In fact, I don't think anti-sec is angry about the fact that AV exists, just that they think talentless people make millions off of selling a bad product (via fear and misinformation).

John Viega (worked on McAfee's AV for many years) has written plenty about why AV is so bad. His most recent book, The Myths of Security is a decent read, but probably not work paying more than $10 dollars for.
I posted here because I thought you guys might have some tips for further refining the estimate and some ideas for other sharing sites to include besides webmail sites and facebook and twitter. Also, I make the claim that most apps that send direct traffic are "sharing" apps - email, twitter and facebook clients, RSS readers. Can you think of any apps that might lead to large amounts of direct traffic that aren't necessarily "sharing" apps?
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OK, there are a few flaws, as commenters on the original blog post have pointed out. But I give a lot of credit to the author for making a decent attempt to show how the PSD->coding process works.

It's all very well having graphic designers posting "PSD templates" on their portfolio pages and blogs, but half of those templates could not be converted into real web pages without losing significant parts of the effect, particularly where fonts are concerned.
But you judge a person by look, right? That's the bias I was talking about. As a non white person, I can feel when people look at me walking on the street and their uneaseness in 4am in Harlem, NYC.

As long as human judge things by looks (I did not say this is good thing. I've been trying to remove biases in my perception in search for enlightenment since my teenager time from readings in Taoism/Buddhism), we will all suffer from a lot of misconnections to great things.
Even better - install a water heater heat pump that uses the outgoing water as heat source. Then a) you can usefully use all drain water, not just from hot showers, and b) it doesn't matter if the outflow is at a different time than the inflow, because it's buffered by the tank in the water heater.

Or even better, get a heat pump that combines hot water and building heat. They're not cheap though.
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I totally read "Cylons". The sentence was consequently awesome.
When things aren’t working, think “smarter” not “louder”.
The weird thing is that full disclosure is not really a money grab. It's about compelling vendors to patch their products so that we don't have millions and millions of machines with an exploitable vulnerability.
I agree with many points of your comment. However, here are a few excerpts from the Wikipedia article on Tesla:

On weapons:

At the time of his death, Tesla had been continuing his work on the teleforce weapon, or death ray, that he had unsuccessfully marketed to the US War Department. It appears that his proposed death ray was related to his research into ball lightning and plasma, and was imagined as a particle beam weapon. The US government did not find a prototype of the device in the safe. After the FBI was contacted by the War Department, his papers were declared to be top secret. The personal effects were seized on the advice of presidential advisers; J. Edgar Hoover declared the case most secret, because of the nature of Tesla's inventions and patents.[102] One document stated that "[he] is reported to have some 80 trunks in different places containing transcripts and plans having to do with his experiments [...]".

On health:

Tesla may have suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder,[93] and had many unusual quirks and phobias. He did things in threes, and was adamant about staying in a hotel room with a number divisible by three.
When complaining about "the effect" on a news aggregation site it's customary to refer to it by the name of said site. So here it is called "The HN effect." Nevermind the absurdity of this name, on account of HN's (thankfully) small community size. It's just polite. If you MUST refer to "the effect" by any other name, give credit to the historical originator: It's called "The Slashdot Effect." Not Digg, and certainly not reddit.

(Actually I'm not sure Slashdot was the first, though I was aware of "slashdotting" as a verb more than 10 years ago. Anyone know of predating claim to "the effect" by another site?")
Slight digression… I think this conversation is pretty much the rational, reasonable version of most of programming.reddit:

* "this is how I work"

* "fool! You should be doing TDD/AOP/Agile/XP/NIH/WTF/BBQ!"

* "actually, that's not possible for reasons X, Y, Z."

The problem is that the respondent always assumes that the writer of the original post is in the same environment, subject to the same conditions. There's a name for this fallacy, but I don't remember it.

A similar problem is when posters assume that their situation is the typical one: I see this all the time as people post stories like "how to do X", omitting the crucial phrase "... in Ruby", or "in the web development world", or "on Windows". Knocking them down with "I think you'll find telecoms is a little different" seems to be a habit of mine.
I wonder if all the small businesses in the city could get together and bluff the city: say then wanted the same deal as apple, or they will all close?

Don't these schemes seem illegal under the 14th amendment?
A bunch of APIs I've used, and many I've designed, use content negotiation with the Accept header.

E.g.,

http://rdf.freebase.com/
Software like VMWare or Parallels usually makes a fake audio device available. One that has nothing to do with the actual audio hardware in your Mac. They both probably emulate a Soundblaster 16 or so. Which should work fine on anything from Windows to Ubuntu running virtualized.
Also known as a hackintosh.
Mythryl is not just a bag of features like C++ or Python

This reads like programmers' dialect of a marketing speak. It's bold, flashy, presumably based on some facts that are not immediately obvious and it also trashes competitors along the way :)
I'm not an expert, but these things come to mind:

Tickets:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002975.php
http://www.ticketleap.com/

Organisation & Marketing:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/
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What would you say prevents OCaml becoming more mainstream?

F# gets the full backing of the world's biggest software vendor in VS 2010...
But in the update they also describe problems with the setting; it doesn't update properly when the user changes it. Eventually FB will get this ironed out. But where is the QA on this effort?
Unless you're a niche content site that reaches a certain segment that advertisers really need to go after.
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Goes to prove Google has a very strong position on the market.

My guess is, a lot of people would choose Google as a provider of any internet- or computer-related service or goods from among of several vendors. And would trust Google with their data, be it private or related to their business.

Google OS anybody?
this is a great point made by someone that has never worked in IT..

Nevermind the fact that nearly all proprietary software on a system may or may not function correctly with the release of a service pack or a new browser, testing should always be done before hand which is why auto updates are turned OFF.

on the IE6 front i completely agree, i have a redirect page setup with a link to IE 7 for our company website.. IE7 isnt the newest and greatest thing by any means but its a whole lot better than its predecessor.