skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am in a third world country, in fact, I believe our country was the first to buy these laptops. I saw a couple of kids on television getting on Wikipedia with those $99 toys. Those $99 toys are $99 more expensive than any toy they ever had. If said toy breaks, they can take it to a repair center to fix the issues or call in for technical support.

I care about the OLPC helping the kids, and I think having these laptops is a vast improvement over (sadly, in some cases) having absolutely nothing. Would you like it better if they didn't get the laptops at all?
I'm not a lawyer, but under U.S. law, libel generally means that you've written something you knew to be false, or should have known to be false, and that you had malicious intent in doing so. There are some exceptions (e.g. food libel), but as a defendant in a libel case, you're usually better off in the U.S. than in most developed countries.
+1 for nihilism!
Multichannel Marketing in an App Store Full of Noise
I'm pretty amazed that demands for logins and passwords are ever honored. It's one thing to confiscate notes passed in class, but this is the technological equivalent of letting a teacher open the locked doors of your house, listen to your phone calls and crash all your friends' parties.
i'm not sure what there is to complain about. its stock, put up on a stock website.

edit: this supposed to be a referendum on stock photography?
Why Coke beat Pepsi for the last 100+ years
Poll: How many current/ex IBMers are out there?
It's a big company, and postings about IBM seem to generate discussion. I'm just wondering how many of us currently/used to work at Big Blue.
currently at IBM software
currently at IBM research
currently at IBM other
used to work at IBM software
used to work at IBM research
used to work at IBM other
Single-use kitchen products are silly, not to mention space-inefficient. Even if it makes oatmeal and rice, that's basically just a bunch of starch. Might as well just eat Ramen.

Rice cookers are also great for steaming vegetables. Growing up, the rice cooker was our most commonly used cooking appliance, even when we didn't have rice.
Becoming a renewable energy engineer (with videos)
used to work at IBM Research for Extreme Blue, followed by a year and a half in DB2. Happily separated for 2 months.
Virtualization: it's not about performance, it's about provisioning.
I think the Xmind link provided is to the wrong Xmind project. (That same, incorrect project is linked on the SourceForge page that the article links as a reference.)

The article and the SourceForge page link to, respectively:

http://xmind.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmind/

Where the project owner is dragon-software and description of the project is:

Xmind come from Eliza, a simple chat bot.Xmind is a mind self chat system. Human being can talk with me.Xmind can record mind change, upload the history, and generate RSS information.Xmind learn from mind record, create question.

However, the article describes the winning project as The social brainstorming and mind mapping application XMind. Such a description would correspond instead with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmind

http://www.xmind.net/

Note that xmind.net has an open source, free version and also a Pro, for fee version.
Something different: German comfort food
Going by the law, that's true, but what makes a recipe distinct from sheet music? They're both simple printed instructions informing appropriately skilled personnel how to produce a piece to be consumed. "Substantial literary expression" is a hedge. Many chefs have the same kind of distinctive culinary traits as writers have literary traits or as composers have distinctive styles.
Quit my job at IBM Software Group last Friday. Woooooo!
I agree, it's a marketing stunt. There are no economies of scale at work here. Now, if I made it for an event, and I only booked the event venue and hired the entertainment / wait staff if the threshold tickets were purchased, than there's genuine utility here. But for miscellaneous products/services that I offer daily anyway, this is just a marketing stunt.
How many people out there know someone with an Android phone? I personally don't know anyone but I run in a decidedly non-techie social circle.

I think we sometimes think our outrage over "huge mistakes" have something in common with the general population's attitude when that is most definitely not the case.

Issues like removing Google Voice apps to protect their core business won't cause enough of a mass exodus to competing phones to make Apple flinch because the majority of people interested in an iPhone don't give a damn or know what Google Voice is.

Full disclosure: I'm an extremely satisfied iPhone owner.
Stanford students' invention could revolutionize the way diseases are diagnosed
Apple should be perfectly allowed to do this, but if they insist on continuing with such behavior, you can be sure that when my contract is up for renewal, an iPhone will not be my next device.
I know Apple has been arguably hostile towards developers with the app store approval process but it's got to be really demoralizing to have your app verbally approved by someone so high up and then taken out of the app store entirely after it's been available for a while. I wonder if any of these devs will release the apps for jailbroken phones?
Do we really consider infinite resistance a numerical value of (a measurement of) resistance?
Could you kindly give an example of addition in the surreal numbers? I've read a chapter in one of John Conway's books about the surreal numbers, but I don't recall the rules of arithmetic for those.
You can turn an interview into real work: http://www.asktheheadhunter.com/gv981229.htm

Nick Corcodilos was a pretty popular voice 10 years ago and was one of the first to give that sort of hiring advice.
Kudoz to Professor Gottman. However, a more relevant question is: can _you_ predict the long term relations around you just by "blinking"? I can't, hence I don't see any practical application of Malcolm's "Blink".
Yes, generally truth is a defense to a defamation action in the United States, by a precedent that goes back to colonial times, so when you publish, what you have to do to protect yourself is make reasonable efforts to publish true rather than false statements.
the .com site is nicer - REALLY simple :)
something that I tore my hair out over when building my website (gibsonandlily.com) was how to handle input santizing for mysql.

I wrote some functions for it in python (and I'm sure that they don't work very well. Yes, I'm sure some of you could destroy my website...it is a hobby, please don't).

I later found out (and I'm in the process of replacing code) that you can have mysqldb handle it for you like this:

cursor.execute("insert into links(url,description) values(%s,%s)", (url,desciption))

where url and description (the second ones) are variable holding the values you want to insert.

this was different than the way that I was doing it before, which was:

insert_query = "insert into links(url,description) values('%s','%s')" % (url,description)

cursor.execute(insert_query)

I'm sure this sounds completely stupid to some of you who make your living writing web apps...but I thought it was really cool :).
Well, yeah, I meant in the explanation of why an airplane flies. Sure, in a venturi you have Bernoulli effect with no downwash, but the fluid is instead changing speed. The effect is still there, it's just operating in a different direction. Any time you have a pressure change, you must have an acceleration.

In the venturi, the pressure is lower where the speed is higher, that's a fact. But is the pressure lower because the speed is higher, or is the speed higher because the pressure is lower? That question makes no sense, because it depends on how you think about it.

On the one hand, you can say: mass conservation dictates that the fluid must go faster in the narrow part of the tube. If the fluid is to go faster, it must accelerate, so there must be a pressure gradient. Hence, the pressure in the narrow part must be lower.

On the other hand, you can say: Since the fluid goes faster in the narrow part of the tube, the pressure is lower there. Since the pressure is lower, there's a pressure gradient, and that's what causes the fluid to speed up.

Neither of these explanations make sense, because there is no cause and effect in the problem, it's just that one state globally obeys all constraints on the fluid and that's the state with higher speed and lower pressure in the narrow part.
They're all handicapped in other ways, though. And sadly, the handicap that seems to matter most to most people is "no apps."

Vote with your feet; write something cool for Android.
From my understanding of the article, it looks like they added the new machines into their cluster and directed a higher percentage of traffic to them (to account for the 8 cores instead of 4 cores being used in the virtual machines).
If the data is important, there are services that will do this for you, and likely have the equipment/knowledge to do this successfully.
The graphic is cute, but the headline is just plain dumb-- there's no grounds to needlessly confuse cause and effect.
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-adds-jruby-s...

"With JRuby support, our ongoing maintenance of the 1.8.6 branch of MRI and our continued sponsorship of Rubinius, ..."

Emphasis mine.
Good company if you're on the right projects, making sure you're on top of your game, and don't mind a non pay-for-performance pay structure (in my short experience, it's all time-based).
I hope that article becomes #1 hit after googling for "Horizon Realty"
At the end of the plate there is no downwash, so the only effect is Bernoulli, and in this experiment you do get a pressure difference between the sides of the plate, and hence "lift".

Impossible, that would violate momentum conservation.

A pressure difference implies a force on the plate, so upward momentum is transferred to the plate. That momentum has to come from somewhere and it can only come from the air, which must move downward.
I'd rather work a 6 day week working when I want to (say, starting at 10pm) than a 4 day week 9-5.
Oh, and a do not disturb sign is probably mandatory. I'll let you know when I've got some processing power to deal with your problems. Otherwise, I'm dealing with mine.
According to Doctor Phil, it's not if you fight, but how you fight. Does it end up in name-calling or is there respect involved?
interesting work.

not terribly slow computers.

great chairs.
"Upper right" being opposite from the DJ stage and out towards the water.
A shorter form:

Take equation: ∞ + 1 = ∞

If ∞ is a number you can subtract it from both sides giving 1 = 0

So ∞ cannot be a number.

But then 0 too is not a number:

Take equation: 0 * 2 = 0

If 0 is a number you can divide it into both sides giving 2 = 1

So 0 cannot be a number.

0 is special. You cannot multiply and divide by it unconditionally.

∞ is special. You cannot add and subtract it unconditionally.
Maybe if they kicked off with something more meaty, like "We like to sacrifice newborn babies." But then I guess no one would have believed them.

No, I guess you're right, that statement was pretty much perfect.
The Apple apologists say it cuts into Apple's recurring revenue stream. This is based on speculation that Apple is receiving a fixed amount per iPhone subscriber every month. Though even this speculation says it is a fixed amount for each subscriber and is not based on how much the monthly phone bill is.

I like my iPhone, I like developing for the iPhone, but moves like this are making me reconsider.
It doesn't even have to benefit consumers (I'm pretty sure). If it's true, it's free speech. Now the question is, was the apartment moldy?
I only know a few basic Russian words. Is this an internet portal like Yahoo!?
I've been blocking Flash for a while now. Not because of security, but because it's almost always annoying.

Check out Steven Frank's thoughts on the subject: http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/73315911/the-politics-of-flas...
I can't believe they chose that domain name over http://yellowbird.com/.
Well, it's not ENTIRELY true their logo has stayed unchanged for a century

http://www.namedevelopment.com/blog/archives/new-coke-1.gif
No we don't consider ∞ a numerical value.

The big question is: Is it a value nonetheless?

Edit: Infinite resistance is as well defined as zero resistance.

Infinite resistance equals zero conductance.

Infinite conductance equals zero resistance.

Edit2: So if you measure the conductance of an infinite resistor you get the numerical value 0.
Don't do anything according to Doctor Phil. The guy is a lunatic.
Should we care about ABX test results?
pretty much, except unlike Yahoo, they are kicking Google's ass in Russia
Wow, that's amusing.

When I was younger, this was why I would read all sorts of lightweight books on quantum mechanics. I hated the idea of a mechanistic universe, as it did not seem to allow for the possibility of choice. Quantum mechanics offered a way out in its apparent "randomness" (albeit vaguely and rather strangely).

In fact, not so long ago I was debating with someone, defending the existence of free will along these lines (of course more informally and intuitively, as I am not a physicist). It's nice to see more informed people making the argument.
The point about Bernoulli is that it only applies in its naive form in fluid flow where it's effectively a closed system. If you introduce airstreams of varying speeds then all bets are off.

It applies to fluid elements that have the same internal energy. In the case of the airplane wing, the air ahead of the wing is effectively unaffected by the wing's presence, so you can apply the Bernoulli effect to comparing different fluid elements.

Sure, if you compare the air coming out of a hair dryer with air that doesn't, you'll get in trouble, but that has nothing to do with an airplane wing.
And now, that's way more official than he would have liked.
I thought it was due to the cocaine in the original recipe.
Worked there for about 1 year back in '92ish.
Check the comments to the article. It appears that the commentators are RT first, ask questions later - Questions like, "well was the apartment actually moldy?"

Has twitter forgotten #Savejon?

I'm not saying sue first, ask questions later is the right response, but the company may be in the right to defend itself.
It doesn't matter if it's real or not. If something is perceived to be faster, for all intensive purposes to the end user it is faster. You can provide a stop watch, but the user won't care--they will go with the appearances.
Is there an English version? Also, what is the Russian equivalent of something like Bloomberg or CNBC?
Pespi?
If I remember correctly, according to the book Inside Intel (Tim Jackson), the lawyers in Intel's legal dept were reviewed by how many lawsuits they initiated per quarter. Not necessarily by how many they won, but how many they initiated. The goal, of course, to slow down any potential competitors.
I agree. I think all theses articles are nonsense because I have yet to get a GV invite, and I have been waiting for one since it was GrandCentral. It's one thing for Apple to block a popular, well-known service (and I mean Facebook popular, not "I read TechCrunch daily popular"). It's another to block an admittedly beta service that isn't even public.

As sad as it may be, the general consuming public doesn't care, or maybe doesn't even know about the "plight of the developer" on the iPhone. The fact of the matter is that as long as people get their Facebook and fart apps, the general public is happy with their iPhone.
I don't quite understand why the photographers aren't seeing this from the point of view of the amateur photographer that made the deal.

The bragging rights would be worth it alone, and if this budding amateur wanted to go down a (semi-)professional path, then they've landed a shot with a reputable magazine and can place that in their portfolio.
Revenue Bootcamp: Chris Anderson
Richard Feynman explains confusion - a good definition of "hacker"?
That's exactly right. I'm not a big believer in synthetic benchmarks, and I'm not concerned with repeatability of my experiments. The purpose of my test was to determine, for our specific workload, how much of a difference we would see if we went to dedicated hardware -- and even further, what is the difference between a couple of very specific hardware configurations with that workload. I think it accomplished that nicely.
Noone actually claimed there was mold in any apartment. Just that the company thought it was ok to sleep in one that had mold.
I'd emphasize "partly" in this headline. mobile ad revenue is still far from web and it has been declining for everything but the iphone afaik
Is it a good definition of a "hacker" as someone who doesn't avoid the Confusion Feinman is talking about, but rather embraces it?
I didn't understand how you are supposed to read all the info in the tag.

It would be a hassle having to take many pictures. The article (video) says each pattern has some repeated info, but I think that's just some basic small amount of information.

How can you read the whole tag (all the patterns) at once?
There is no WiFi allergy: newspapers misreport PR as science
This entire situation is just truly unbelievable. I can't fathom how Horizon thinks they could have benefited from suing a tenant over such a ridiculous thing as a twitter post.

A good company would have immediately contacted her and solved the problem with no questions asked. Getting a cleaning crew out there and a free month's rent would have been the right move. Then, instead of posting about a crappy moldy apartment she might have posted about the outstanding customer service and then her "massive" collection of 20 followers might remember Horizon Realty the next time they need an apartment.

Could have turned this SMALL negative into a positive if they played it right. Instead they did something incredibly foolish and sued her. nice
The graphic is complete and totally wrong. The coca-cola script logo has been refined and extended numerous times over the years and they also use the sans-serif "Coke" logo on many of their products.

Add in all the other brands, sub-brands and line extensions and you'll see that coke is just as much of a mess as pepsi is.
Here in Quebec, Canada, Pepsi has the biggest market share :P

EDIT : 59.5% Pepsi for 25% Coke.
indeed. Clearly the teacher deserves everything coming to him in the suit.

But hopefully the student has learnt an important lesson about privacy too!
Just the kind of people I want to involve in the most financially weighty purchases of my life (I a home). Yeah, thanks but no thanks. I'd avoid these people like the plague.
This may be just me, but I think we should stop attributing all favorable qualities of a person to the label 'hacker'. Being a hacker's good and all, but prepending 'hacker' to everything that's interesting isn't exactly accurate.
In many ways, it's unavoidable with any US carrier. The whole text messaging racket just bothers me so much. It's such an abuse of the customer, and all of the wireless companies seem to collude to keep those rates exorbitant. It also bothers me that I can look overseas and see such low rates, which INCLUDE tethering.

When will we finally reach a better wireless marketplace? Five years, I bet. It's sad, too, because Google has really been trying to break up the death grip of these carriers (spectrum auction, open-source mobile OS, Google Voice), but they're up against multiple 1,000lb. gorillas.
Ok, I understand the math part, don't quite get the 'Free Man' part. Is it a reference to something? Enlighten a poor soul.
Really Easy Lentil Soup

3 cloves garlic, minced

1 onion, julienned

oil for sauteeing

2 cups green or red lentils, rinsed

6 cups boiling water

2 vegetable stock cubes

1 1/2 tbsp garam masala

salt and pepper to taste

In a large pot, sautee the onions and garlic until translucent. In a separate bowl, stir the vegetable stock into the boiling water and then add to the pot. Mix in the garam masala.

Now add the lentils and boil softly until cooked thoroughly - the lentlis should be nice and soft. (At this point you can partially puree the lentils if that grabs you. I prefer to leave them whole.)

Optional: add finely chopped carrots and celery just after sauteeing.
The Median Voter and the Mixed Voter
I'm not 100% sure Google Voice is a valid example for this theory but here goes: By accepting applications that compete with the iPhone's core capabilities they stand to lose way more revenue than they do by angering some nerds by banning the application in the first place.

Here's a question. Does Apple really need tech geeks for the iPhone to be successful anymore? It's already a mainstream success, the large majority of users are probably not tech oriented at this point and the hardcore types (whom, I'm sorry, represent a small market share) are already more interested in Android phones because they like the "hacker" feel of it's operating system.
used to work at IBM Global Services (internship)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Prisoner
Web Design Trend Hunting – The Circle As A Design Fetish & 20 Fresh Examples
If you mount the plate on a spring, and measure the steady state, the spring extends, showing that there is a force on the plate. There is no violation of conservation of momentum.

Look, this is pointless. Static states can isolate the individual effects, and then they all get combined into a dynamic state in varying amounts, and it becomes horribly complicated. People insist on trying to produce and explain overly simplistic models, and others insist on misunderstanding them. I've actually physically done these experiments and I know that what I say is true.

I'm not going to reproduce all the nitpicking tiny details in this forum because it's hard, inappropriate, and people will continually try to pick holes in it. It's the Monty Hall problem all over, and I'm just too tired to care.

There's every chance that your understanding is right in the cases you're considering, but I can't be bothered finding out where our experimental models differ.

I wish I hadn't bothered.
Rails BugMash
Audio White Paper – The Fundamentals of HTTP
Buffman's needle A Problem in Probaility solved for Graduate Assignment (Funny)
I wonder if they will be suing reviewers on Yelp next.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/horizon-realty-group-chicago-4
Microsoft and Yahoo close to search deal
What the hell does this have to do with HN???
Anyone got some commentary on the realistic reasons Coke have beaten Pepsi regularly?

Though actually here in the UK coke/pepsi seem to have different markets - Coke rules the shop shelves whilst Pepsi seems to be the pub/cafe soft drink choice (i.e. the ones in the pumps etc. it's all Pepsi here in the UK)
>why so few types of jobs involve a trial or probation period, though; perhaps due to mistrust?

Good employees might be risk averse due to life circumstances (family obligations, etc.). Asking someone to leave a job where he's liked and feels secure for one where he knows he's being "auditioned" for the first few months might not sit well around the dinner table at home.
spent last 5 yrs at IBM software. you can do some great things in this place if you can tolerate the old boys (and girls) network, politics and your manager.
excellent, I have this idea for a way people can buy pet supplies online!
Not a bad idea, but it doesn't seem to work with XHTML which is served according to spec. I've got a site that's valid XHTML, which is served up as application/xhtml+xml, which works fine in Firefox/Safari/Chrome/Opera (and not at all in IE but I don't care), and it validates fine by validator.w3.org.

vldtr says "2 errors", and if I click the "W3C" logo next to it there, it sends me to the W3C's "Feed Validation Service", which rightfully complains that "It looks like this is a web page, not a feed".
congrats! which brand did you work for?
Ah, that clears it up. Thank you, good Sir!
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