skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- search ?

I don't know if they're planning for this to be a new core business. Up to this point they haven't been competing there like it is one. Bing is a fine entry, though. It's not going to knock off Google search, but they've done a very respectable job.

- office software ?

I dislike Microsoft Office and haven't used it for many years, but I realize I'm in the minority. Microsoft is so entrenched here it's ridiculous. The MS Office upgrade cycle will be safe for quite some time.

- desktop operating systems ? (massive piracy, bad product launches)

Every Windows release that I can remember has been a flop in one way or another, although Vista is in a tight race with Windows ME for worst launch ever. It hardly matters when the majority of PCs purchased come with Windows whether you want it or not. Besides, many of the people avoiding Vista are ending up with a new copy of Windows XP.

- mobile operating systems ? (lost to the iphone, in due time probably lost to android, too early to tell)

It's a joke.

- game consoles ? (lost to the wii)

Everyone lost to the Wii. It doesn't mean Microsoft hasn't had a respectable showing here. They're also still sufficiently different that they can coexist without much trouble.

It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't dominate markets the way they did 10 years ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if, after the anti-trust thing, they realized they don't have to. They are incredibly well diversified and making money in a lot of different places. They're still #1 by a longshot in the OS and office suite markets and making a good showing in a couple others.
They are planning to do their own e-book thing with the upcoming tablet.
Although for iphone and ipod the apps wouldn't hurt, they probably don't want people getting used to e-books on iphone and ipod before the tablet comes out.... ?
The e-books would kill the battery on the iphone/ipod anyway. Don't think it would work.
Just some ideas, don't shoot me down.
"Heck, web ads give the user an instant way to click through and act on the ad"

And that is the problem. Because the ads in print just sit there, the only way to measure the effectiveness is in increase in sales. On the web however, the sales are web sales and the advertiser forgets completely that a customer might have seen the ad and decided to go to the shop instead. So it's advantage is its downfall aswell since it constrains the metric used to measure hence undervaluing the effectiveness of web advertising.
this article make statustics really cool, i want to learn it now, anyone know how hard could it be?
My wife's father led resistance against the Japanese in the area southwest of Beijing. He was shot and left for dead in the burial area. I am with my wife today only because a doctor just happened to be walking by and spotted him breathing. Where are the pictures of him?

When the US conducted the Doolittle raid in early 1942, the Japanese responded by murdering 250,000 (yes, a quarter of a million) Chinese citizens in their enraged search for a few American flyers. Where are the pictures of those people?

Where are the pictures of those murdered by Japanese biological weapons unit? How about of those infants who were bayoneted by the Japanese during "the rape of Nanjing"?

The purpose of articles like this is not to convey history, but to give a certain kind of person a sense of self-worth, a sense they have trouble obtaining anywhere else. They make the world a little worse for their own ends, then tell themselves how caring and concerned they are.
not for me; instead I'll be reading more on HN.
Is it just me, or is there just plain too much money? Having made all the safe loans the market can take, these banks are left sitting on a still-giant pile of money, which they can't just sit on. Combine that with the fundamental inability of any single human to understand the effects of some of these loans and it just doesn't matter what regulations you throw at the market; the banks will find a way to make loans that are as risky as necessary to avoid the alternative of... well, not making loans. That's just not thinkable.

Somehow, we've got to address the roots of the problem, not keep trying to regulate the second- and third-order effects away.
Twitter Gets DDOSed
TechCrunch will complain about anything and everything, regardless of its actual importance.

For example, Arrington's house doesn't have electricity this morning. Who cares? Nobody. And yet it is a critical part of this "story".
Well, I think the publishers would feel very safe in regards to your idea if the country of choice is China. I think they would worry about someone in say Sweeden instead :P
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/443634
http://status.twitter.com/ says it's back up too, although they are continuing to defend against the DoS attack.
Twitter hit by denial of service attack
Well, there's the Financial Times, but they already have a paywall.

Bloggers don't have as much clout in finance as they do elsewhere. Mainly because there are more security guards to kick them out and it costs a lot more to get into industry events. Also, if you're an insider and you blog the wrong thing, you can lose your job and get arrested.
Yeah, suck the wingnuts dry.
The streaming API¹ worked for a bit, but just went down too. For a while it showed that a few tweets were still going through.

[1] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation
fair, but i was referring to more mainstream sources.

i'm not trying to imply that this is what is happening, but i do think it could be an interesting metric to compare -- how much noise you get from downtime 6 months ago to the noise of today.
Agreed. Also: "3-dimensional programs" are affected!
It's a sign of how true the original statement is that you consider "only adding 2 extra keybindings" to be essentially the same as "haven't customized your keybindings."
>> If the economy keeps moving toward recovery, as many measures suggest, then the new products might well work out for buyers and sellers alike.

Isn't this exactly what they were saying when encouraging people to take out ridiculous mortgages to buy homes? "As long as the market keeps rising, which it will of course do, your value will keep rising and you can just refinance!"

And we all know how well tha-- oh, wait...
Did you have a particular right-wing SA billionaire in mind?
The LED's Dark Secret: "droop"
Scott Adams: Building a Market for Global Patent Protection
(Disclaimer: I'm one of the Timetric team, though I don't recognise myself from Jed's description!)

There's also the API and the ability to build models which get updated when the underlying data's updated. Timetric is much more a time series database with visualization on the top than it's a visualization service which incidentally happens to be a data store.

If anyone out there needs a time series database backend for something they're building, get in touch with us: we'd love to talk with you.
> I think it's also worth keeping in mind that GPUs are, essentially, tiny computers unto themselves. Putting a GPU in a system now is like installing a computer in a computer.

I've been doing exactly that for the longest time, first with a DSP32, then with a transputer card. Then I switched to small scale clusters (the largest had 10 nodes, see here http://www.clustercompute.com/ ), now GPUs.

Your take on 1) and 2) is noted, thanks for that insight.
It made drudge about 15 minutes ago.
You can't downvote topics.
Huh? The firewall logs? Got grep -v?
I'd also like to know if any projects are making use of these ORM tools. Do these projects have any users?
This keeps coming up, and people keep linking to pg's post on saying that's exactly the intent of down-voting.
"Secret History of Silicon Valley" Google Tech Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ
There was no way to transfer a document instantly and without using paper. Faxes were slow and used paper. There was a clear business need.

So I don't think thats a fair comparison. Then again I don't remember those days from personal experiences, just making an assumption.

From a different perspective. If it was serving a need people would be willing to pay for it.
How would you compare your offering, both in terms of technology and business application, to someone like CleverSet (now ATG Recommendations)?
(Again, I'm one of the Timetric team.)

We've not so much left it out as not got round to it yet! Counting the number of entries - is that what you're after? - is a nice idea: we were thinking more of a series of values a-la RSS-CB (http://www.cbwiki.net/wiki/index.php/RSS-CBMain), but it sounds like they'd both be good things to do.
Chernobyl scattered the material from a reactor core the size of a house over the surrounding area. Hiroshima exploded a football sized piece. There was 300-500x as much radioactivity released from Chernobyl. Although a slightly different mix of isotopes - this is relatively minor

Think of it as the difference between a roadside bomb (small amount of energy concentrated in one place) and a forest fire (huge amount of energy spread over large area)
Risk is fine.
What's not fine, is the obfuscation of risk to the point of fraud.

And my problem with pay-day loans stems solely from the fact that the vast majority of pay-day loan 'customers' are already functionally bankrupt when they start using these services.

They're just delaying the inevitable with these loans and the banks are only too happy to eat the cost of the inevitable default if it means they can collect 100-400% interest a dozen times before that.

Cap the rates and this loan-sharking will end.
In 1918, Robert Russell and Margaret Odell devised and patented an algorithm for approximating and encoding the phonetic value of a word.

Nice to know that patent insanity isn't a new thing.
Don't forget to use Readability to format the page all nice and pretty for reading:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
While it may be the most widely used alternative, it cannot be considered a "threat" when it's market share is orders of magnitude smaller, and not gaining ground very quickly http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=9
Curiously that closing line is one with which I completely disagree. Someone once described the difference between Facebook and Twitter as "Facebook is for people you used to know, Twitter for people you want to know".

Speaking for myself, I get a lot of value from Twitter by following people that are smarter than me, and mostly, I don't really "know" them, and they mostly don't know or follow me back. I don't care for follow-backs, I care to get their wit, their pointers, their knowledge, their humor.

For "people you know well" there's meatspace, or Facebook when geography makes the former impractical.
My first attempt at imagining a solution was to do a very broad search using "outdoor weatherproof camera 1200 lines resolution" (broad in comparison to your requirements). I had fantasized that maybe, if I were able to pipe those results to another query... But "outdoor weatherproof camera 1200 lines resolution" wasn't an effective search even by itself

(disclaimer: I know little about security cameras)
With extensive experience with both print and web all I can say is:

HTML and PDF were designed for two entirely different things, PDF being much more strict in this respect (as it can make assumptions about display medium that HTML cannot).

Thinking you can go from HTML to PDF with correct results is a very wrong assumption.
You've got it exactly right. There's even a term for such "excess liquidity" that everybody knows: inflation. The Fed Funds Rate is supposed to rein in this kind of behavior, but I wouldn't hold my breath for the next couple months.
I am not sure if it's related, but I had connection errors with Facebook chat last night around 11pm EST, it was my first time using this feature, so I wrote it off as buggy, and moved the conversation to another chat platform.
Yeah, that's a problem of the "That cactus is dangerously spiny!" "Well, then stop trying to tackle it!" variety.
Firespring Founder Jay Wilkinson Offers Business Law Advice to Startups
If banks are too big to fail, they should be prevented from pulling this kind of stuff. If it's a truly profitable venture, spin off a startup to do it. If the startup goes belly-up, bankruptcy can work its magic.

I don't see why the financial world can't do innovation like the technology world, so long as I don't have to bail them out every April 15th.
I picked up Bioshock on Steam when it was on sale at $5 -- which was fortunate because that's approximately what the game turned out to be worth to me: the thing would rarely run for 30 minutes before crashing. A long thread on the Steam message boards revealed that others had similar problems, with no known fixes.

I suspect that the game's publisher (2K) saw Steam as an easy alternate revenue source that didn't need stringent testing or support. I have purchased a number of other games on Steam, and I have not had an experience nearly as bad as Bioshock. The Valve games, in particular, are wonderful -- fast-launching, working on a range of hardware, and constantly updated to enhance the player experience. I'll think twice before buying another 2K game for the PC, however.

Anything you buy on Steam is effectively a rental, though, so it's important to pick a rental price. Their terms of service make no provision for the case where they go offline or out-of-business, and you can't sell or transfer the games to someone else. $5 was not a bad price for "renting" Bioshock, frustrations aside.
They're probably not. Twitter is a DDoS according to its status page; whereas http://status.livejournal.org/ says that their problems were "due to some database problems."

No idea about Facebook.
D'oh, upvoted instead of clicking reply =(

What I mean is that in order to manage user accounts, the management tool (Puppet) will have to know what the encrypted password is so it can insert it into /etc/shadow. Otherwise you have no password and must rely on NOPASSWD in sudoers if you want to log into that managed machine and use sudo.

If the system doesn't have a password for you in /etc/shadow, sudo can't authenticate you via getpwent or whatever.

So your only two options are to write a tool for users to update their password in Puppet directly/indirectly, or allow NOPASSWD and religiously check for empty passphrases on SSH keypairs.
Ask Sir Ken Robinson (of TED fame) anything on creativity
That's why there's a lot of "Lite" versions of games and apps in the Store. It'd be great if Apple added a shareware option in the store - e.g. let the developer set a price and the number of days before the user has to pay to continue using it. Shouldn't even be very hard to implement, since they've got pretty much total control of what can run on the devices already (if we ignore the fairly small percentage of jailbreaked devices, but they can run pirated apps anyway).
And as we know a lot of it has been blown out of proportions thanks to the potent mix of random "twats" and overeager traditional media.

As a tool it has its uses. However, I strongly believe that 45 million people don't _need_ this as a tool and use it purely for enterntainment. To say that we rely on Twitter for communication is simply false.
Facebook ain’t cool with the kids no more
Appears to be down again at 11:35 EST
At least we now know what caused the ddos attack, massive unfollowing by people that disconnected from Scoble.
We Love Concurrent Engineering
Facebook chat showing connection errors and other peoples' photos are appearing in my mobile album. Of course, it could just be load from all the displaced twitter users.

Friendfeed is up :).
I agree, but at the same time, you only learn by doing. In my experience, even when you dive in way over your head, you tend to pick up the information rather quickly. I took a machine learning class with no statistics background and after a few weeks of floundering and learning terminology I was fine. The benefit of forming a problem first gives you an ultimate goal of which to work towards.

Don't tell Google that it's slogan ("Organize the world's information") is biting off more than it could chew.
So dramatic that Arrington added a grocer's apostrophe to the title. Goodness, the news that Twitter has been DDoSed most be causing overwhelming excitement out in California.
I guess I need to stop lurking... 184 karmas to go!
When email was first becoming popular, most people didn't know they wanted to transfer a document without using paper. And in fact when they GOT a document in an email, much of the time they wound up printing it out.

But even then your basic argument is flawed, because it assumes that the point of email is attachments. The original technology email replaced was not the fax machine but the letter. Likewise, Twitter is arguably partly a replacement for SMS.
Notepad and a huge list. which i decided to turn into a web based todolist manager http://totdo.com ,but I'm still transitioning to it.
I bet this guy had couple of terrible apps on the appstore which didn't made him the moolah he was hoping for and now he is blaming it on apple and trying to get traffic on his website by being dramatic. .

This appstore thing has been discussed on HN so many times, and I just cannot believe how some developers are blaming Apple for everything. I know their needs to be improvements in the appstore. I also know apple is screwing up at some fronts but overall appstore rocks. People need to be critical about bad things but then they should give credit where it is due.
http://status.twitter.com/post/157191978/ongoing-denial-of-s...

More informative than the spamrticle.
What is "social care"? What are "maternity rights"? And how many women in the workforce had both in 1959? I think it might have been predicted then, but not known.
Do you believe in miracles?
See example of success: http://example.com/faq
Upvoted for inspiring me to Google "grocer's apostrophe" and eventually leading me to the Wikipedia page on apostrophe's :-> in general, which I found to be startlingly fascinating.
Why is it insane? Because it contains the word "patent"?
"apostrophes" not "apostrophe's" :-)
How can it be a fact if it's not substantiated?

It's all down to opinion, which I chose to share. Now some replies which are all my opinion again.

a) All my keybindings are approximately vim-like. Mutt uses vim as an editor. I use the mouse for ddd (nail me to a cross for my sins). irssi mainly involves: type stuff, whack enter.

b) Blue is my favourite colour (particularly oceandeep.vim).

c) Revelation: I avoid "project management" tools. That is what the filesystem and the related tools are for.

d) Regarding forking, UNIX was designed to be small utilities working together to build systems greater than the sum of it's parts, not one monolithic environment. Otherwise they wouldn't have added the fork() syscall would they? Hence, in vim, whack bang (!) and type a shell command. Pipe stuff in, get stuff out.

e) I admit, my writing style is terrible.

..zzZZ
Congrats, would you like a cookie?

This article just says the same things that have been said many times, that Apple has been annoying with their control of the App Store, it doesn't really bring anything new to the conversation at all.
I also disagree. Creativity requires that someone see rules as suggestions, and then go beyond them to ultimately accomplish what the rules were trying to take you to in the first place. In my experience, programming takes a lot of creativity to make a more efficient process... creativity is like seeing the world as a puzzle when everyone else is spacing out.
"It is sociably acceptable for every day adults to ride bikes, even a women in a skirt which was something you would never see in the states."

This guy has obviously never been to Portland, Denver, or a host of other cities where bikes are absolutely normal modes of transportation.

Hell just as I wrote this two women (in skirts) biked past my window (Downtown Denver).
That's only a small section, outside of downtown, that has been explicitly preserved. Walk just a few blocks away from the peace museum, or the memorial, and there's office buildings, a huge underground shopping mall, and... well, it's just like a normal city.

Because it is a normal city.
New Chrome 3 beta with 30% improvement
I find the reasoning around Jesus not having a human father to counteract Dawkins very much stretched.

Dawkins wasn't arguing from what is possible today, he was arguing from what was possible 2000+ years ago, and as far as we know today human cloning wasn't on the table then.

(and it hasn't been positively established that it is even on the table today!).
Until a few months ago, I used Damn Small Linux daily as a secondary work system, on an old 128M P2 laptop. It made a great ssh (and 3270) terminal. If I watched the memory usage, I could even browse the web, play MP3s, etc. if my main laptop was rebooting or being worked on by IT. Not bad for system that ran from a CD and a 32M USB drive. I also used the CD to do rescue work on my primary laptop and other people's systems. I still keep a DSL CD in my laptop bag.

I didn't realize Robert is a 60 year old disabled retiree.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20090323#feature
Particularly when you go "against the grain" on here. If I dare say anything negative about LISP, Emacs, the environment or business mentality, I get shot down straight away.
I don't think you can try to make light of this WORLD DAMAGING situation with other evils. While the murder of innocents is very evil and condemnable, the effects of the atomic bombs can still be felt by those born deformed and sick by something so long ago. Not to mention the damage to the actual earth. I respect your father in law for his service, but this is larger than a soldier getting shot in wartime.
"If a country's HDI score is between 0.9 and 0.92 (as is the case for South Korea or Germany), the average fertility rate is low enough at 1.24 for the population to halve in size every 40-45 years. However, countries with the highest scores (including Australia and Scandinavia) have an average fertility rate of 1.89 - not quite the replacement level, but close enough that small levels of migration can sustain the same population."

So even with the recent reversal, there are still many countries with a below-replacement birth rate, which over time leads to a shrinking population. I would have expected a headline more like "Fertility rates inch back up but still below replacement" for the blog entry.
Oh I agree. I don't really like Steam and (usually) refuse to buy anything that hasn't bee greatly reduced. Normally, I'm very reluctant to spend more than €5 on Steam.

But.. when the price is right (less than €10 in this case) and something looks good, its damned convenient and I'll simply impulse buy.
Who modded that down? He really should be using awk instead of cut. It has better readability: "{print $2}" to print the second field vs. a set of magic numbers denoting a character field. It's vastly easier to write (again, the "second field" is intuitive). It's also more generally useful, meaning that it's a better tool to know; cut is very primitive.

That said, there are better ways still to solve this problem. Some of them were detailed above. One that wasn't was the fact that GNU ps has lots of filtering options itself, in this case:

ps -eo pid -U 1002

Does the work of the grep and cut from the original for you.
Does anyone think that these vices come about because creative answers are found when crashing opposing worlds, and creatives seek to crash into as many worlds as they can?
Isn't it the ability to see the world outside of itself that gives someone new insight?
Is it wrong that I think of such things as tools instead of vices?... or has my creative lifestyle warped my thought process?
Yah. I mean, ideally what I want is to use it with Twitter. Let me plug in an RSS feed for a search term, and then see its frequency over time.
70.000 users on just identi.ca, without counting others using laconi.ca
that's the idea behind identi.ca
But whoever will they sue for the loss of revenue?
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