skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they don't have a "heart" b/c they are persons only by law.

This is a well-known phenomenon [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation ]. Organizations acting without moral, conscience, responsibility and ethically towards real humans/natural persons can certainly happen, but it goes without saying, that it also does have consequences. This is what I pointed out: You cannot blame people for hating dishonest legal persons.

Acting such and expecting loyalty and gratitude in the same time is hard to achieve.

History is littered with examples, and I am inclined to think the recurrence of such attitude is partially responsible for the self-inflicted trouble we face.

"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." -- George Bernard Shaw

Cisco is relevant, because History is relevant, from my point of view.

"When Americans say "that is history", they often mean it is no longer relevant. When Europeans say "that is history", they usually mean the opposite." -- Javier Solana, 2006
Is AP Run By Idiots?
You have to make sure your blog and/or static website gets some exposure and Twitter is not your number one channel of spreading your message. Then Twitter works well.
There is a fundamental flaw in your analogy: airlines are selling actual scarce goods (limited seats on a plane). Newspapers, as they are today, aren't really selling anything.

Fact: News existed before newspapers.
Fact: News will exist after newspapers.

The "news industry" has never been in the business of creating anything. They were simply in the "fact distribution" business. Facts used to travel more efficiently via the newspaper than any other means (gossip, telephone, even television). But now that distribution costs on the internet are virtually nil, they can no longer make money by exploiting inefficiencies.

This is the reason that Simon's plan is never going to work. If they try it, they'll go out of business just that much sooner.

There are publications that still make money off subscriptions. The Economist is the shining example (I even subscribe, for a pretty substantial fee). The value in their publication is in their analysis of the facts.

Everybody will know the same things pretty quickly. However, not everyone will come to the same conclusions. Those conclusions are what they should be charging for, not the facts.
Cargo Cult Science, by Richard Feynman (1974)
Sad but true. On the other hand SEO and the SEO industry in particular is still very young. With time the current Wild West state of it will solidify like with other industries.
No, it just changes it. Make sure to prepare for the change and you'll fare well with it. Identify potential new revenue streams beforehand and provide useful services for users and developers alike.
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It's not the same thing, in the same sense that "Lazy Evaluation" is not the same thing as "Non-strict Semantics", but "Term Re-Writing" is closely allied with "Graph Reduction. Simon Peyton-Jones' books "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" and "Implementing Functional Languages: a tutorial" are excellent works. Now out of print, they can both be found on-line.

The following references also help ...

http://www.google.com/search?q=implementing+functional+langu...

http://www.google.com/search?q=graph+reduction+term+rewritin...
I believe the title should be fixed to read "Motorola's", not "Mororola's".
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It is eclipse.
Anti-sec hacked their manifesto over every Image Shack image two weeks ago. http://mashable.com/2009/07/10/imageshack-hacked/ I wouldn't believe the manifesto; they are doing it for the delectable combination of money and the sociopathic pleasure of creating chaos.
And that is why I never buy Apple. I continue to be amazed that a company which is responsible for such cutting edge technology and engineering excellence maintains such an old school attitude to business, its customers and its developers. Apple just doesn't get the concept of openness. It's stuck in the 80s.
It’s important to realize that we are dealing with two different classes of users. First are the “enterprisey” users that, for all intents and purposes, have no time and infinite money. Second are the more tech-savvy users who effectively have infinite time and no money.

Not a new thought, but a great way to phrase it.
Android seems like a nice guy and all, but could we please get a C++-environment. Current mobile market is way too fragmented imho, iPhones have their ObjC, Nokia has Symbian C++, and now Android has its Java. Nearly impossible to develop anything which would run on all three mentioned easily.
It wouldn't surprise me if ImageShack was just incompetent, but the scary thing about Matasano getting owned is they're professionals. Makes you wonder if the SSH 0-day rumor has some truth to it...
I agree.

We all make mistakes (especially when we're young, but not only). And the Net already keeps the history of most of our faux pas anyway.

More importantly, we all often change our mind as a result of learning new things and seeing things from new and different perspectives. Which is good!
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"Another example is the ESP experiments of Mr. Rhine, and other people. As various people have made criticisms--and they themselves have made criticisms of their own experiments--they improve the techniques so that the effects are smaller, and smaller, and smaller until they gradually disappear. All the parapsychologists are looking for some experiment that can be repeated--that you can do again and get the same effect--statistically, even. They run a million rats no, it’s people this time they do a lot of things and get a certain statistical effect. Next time they try it they don’t get it any more. And now you find a man saying that it is an irrelevant demand to expect a repeatable experiment. This is science?"

Feynman noticed the scientific procedure problems in parapsychology "research," and later investigators responded to his suggestion to be better research by carefully debunking claims about ESP research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alpha
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At my last job our (numeric) C and C++ code was in some case twice as fast compiled with SPARCworks (or whatever it's called this week) compared to GCC.

To be fair tho', $vendor can concentrate 100% on $processor, GCC at least tries to be cross-platform.
I'm sorry for not researching properly before posting. Android seems to have native devkit too.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-a...
Contrary to most of the comments I've seen I thought the video was very interesting.

I'm quite surprised the kids were so willing to walk away from services like FB in which they have a lot of 'emotional capital' invested. I would have thought FB would have been 'stickier' given the photos, memories of shared events etc.

It would have been interesting to dig deeper and try and work out how much of this free web attitude is learned behavior. It's clear everyone expects to pay for internet access, telephony and cable. Is there not scope for 'teaching' people that a lot of the web just cannot be free over time?
I feel it as a pun on a well-known idiom in other languages, that would translate verbatim to more about smoke than fire i.e. something of no substance or use, most often discussion. It is a certainly saying in my native language.
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The manifesto complains that full disclosure allows script kiddies to copy and paste exploits, yet whoever vandalised this site did exactly that.

Is this an attempt at humour, or am I missing something?
At this point I'm willing to consider it. Anyways, looks like they woke up and took the site down. I flagged this story; they really don't need the publicity.
"... anything that allows arbitrary devices to pretend to be an iPhone and sync jeopardizes email account information--which can be synced to the iPhone--and is a security flaw."

Since we are talking about USB ids here, pretending to be an iPhone would open a "security flaw" only when they have physical access to the computer iPhone's being synced with.

In which case a person already can do whatever they like with it. E.g., just copy your entire hard drive.
I read this before sleeping. No comment still has noted something obvious.

Many of Microsoft's strange moves (IE, Zune, stores next to Apple's stores, etc) obviously looks like a monopolist trying to cut off a competitor's oxygen supply. Profitability is probably not that high on that agenda.
It's a matter of elitism (or should I say, 1337ism): they don't consider themselves script kiddies. They have toys but they don't want other kids to have toys.
News is news, but thanks. =)
When this discipline was first starting to kick off I remember a little experiment done to tap into and code the DNA of a particular strain of bacterium (probably similar to this E-coli). In doing so the playful scientists encoded the phrase "I am the riddle of life, solve me!" into junk DNA sections of the organism.... it always made me feel a little queasy thinking about it being found by whatever civilization is around a thousand years from now! What would it do to their fundamental picture of life? I'm sure the same could be said about organic computation. It's an open-ended chaotic system, where really all we control is the initial starting conditions. Who's to know that after we've got our "answer" the continued adaptation leads to something vastly beyond our control/comprehension. I guess it's all part of the "ghost in the machine" paranoia surrounding AI, except these things will not be ghosts and the machine is DNA.....

</alarmist diatribe>
OK, so it’s not exactly "grim" up North for tech - But there are some issues
Video summary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8phWzXgNFGY

So very true, especially the part about skills retention.
There's a much larger cognitive shift for a C++ developer in simply using a different framework than coding in Java. I don't think much is gained or lost in things being in one language or the other so long as the APIs are completely different.
To really get your head spinning, what if you used 'strings' on your own dna and you found some interesting ascii segments in there, on 4 billion basepairs the chances of finding something interesting are pretty good ;)
I'm just finishing "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman" - what a damn good book.

For a few years, I'd read references and anecdotes and cool snippets and meant to read it, but I never got around to it. And now I'm kicking myself that I didn't earlier, because it's wonderful and illuminating and my worldview is greatly expanded.

You, yes YOU, if you haven't read it yet, get your copy and read it. You'll be happy you did. It reads fast, and you'll learn a lot about society and love and engineering and science and mixing with people very different than you. Just an amazing read. It's worth taking a 30 minute break from Hacker News each day for a month to read it, it's like the essence of Hacker News distilled into witty, insightful, gorgeous easy-yet-deep reading.

Amazon, no affiliate link (really, add it to your cart and get it with your next order - no excuse not to, anyone who likes this site will love this book):

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Paul, have any other teams been accepted to YC with the AirBNB team composition of 2 non-tech/1 tech founders? It makes sense in their case in that it is more of a social engineering than tech challenge, but it is an interesting case.
But remember, we see faces in clouds. We seem predisposed to bullshit our selves in similar fashion.
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When I see moves like this, I think about a wonderful small, white, fluffy dog my girlfriend had. After a while, I sort of co-adopted him as my dog, and I'd walk him to a big fenced schoolyard every night before bed so he could do his business.

Now, I could run around with him and have a nice time and play and exercise. But if I let him off his leash, it'd be HELL trying to get him back on. He'd go pat-pat-pat-VROOOOOMMMMMMMM past me when I'd try to grab him. It'd take like forever.

So it is industries like newspapers. The dog is off the leash. Pandora's Box is opened. Horses are escaped from barn. The time to try something like this was a long time ago, proactively, with lots of value-add.

Trying to force people to pay for something they've been getting free, with no new add-value, and new restrictions and inconveniences, when there's alternative sources... well, it ain't gonna work. Pat-pat-pat-VROOOOMMM. "Dog! Come back here. RIGHT NOW! I mean it! I mean it! Come back! ... Seriously! It's cold, I'm sick of being out here! ... Right now! ... I mean it!"
Even people in the "fact distribution" business via the internet (newspapers or not) will expect to make an amount equal to the value they are creating by moving those facts about.
More at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVvyVVoLH8U for those who just can't look away.
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My computer can solve TSP on three towns far, far faster. This shows calculations can be done with bacteria, but there's no evidence at all that it will be faster, especially on NPC, even with the extreme parallelism the method implies.

It's typical journalistic hype.
I could just hope, that William H. Gates will still have enough income to buy the right to copy this book, and put it out on Silverlight, out of pure fascination for science and integrity; so that Amazon will need not meddle with the freedom of the Right to Read.

Until then, those whom dare to click through and read seem to be in breach of the law. May you have that freedom. Lucky it's not source code with all those 4 freedoms...
In the same way that "eat food" is a lesson on wilderness survival. Or the way that Schrodingers equation tells you all you need to know about Quantum mechanics.

The rest is just commentary and examples.

The lesson is a clever device by the author, he pwns marketing 101, but is "to grok economics consider future global effects" really that inciteful?

Seems to be a nice book though.
> Apple just doesn't get the concept of openness. It's stuck in the 80s.

Apple's attitude is incredibly modern; just not open.

Do we HAVE to be 100% open all the time now, really? That makes no sense. Apple have killer products all the way from distribution to consumption; they've marketed them and sold them with effectiveness other companies only dream of!

I certainly cant fault them for wanting to keep that success to themselves :)
Wouldn't this imply news aggregators like HN would have to pay to post links?
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He basically says that you have to change your business model to survive.

So put on an edge, two guys who spend all their time working on the source should open source it and then spend all their time doing support work. I think that is a lose/lose scenario, i.e. the two guys no longer spend their time on what they are passionate about, and the users will see less innovation done with the product, now that the two main developers are instead using their time on support.

True that some businesses exist which are built around supporting F/OSS but those generally are built after someone else already created (and contributes to) the product they support.
grow up. he did.
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All linguists know that there are plenty of examples of languages in which personal pronouns don't distinguish gender, including Chinese. I have a visitor these days, a friend from Taiwan, and he can reliably confuse "he" and "she" in English (for example, by talking about his wife but then saying "he" or by talking about his son and then saying "she") because he, like most native speakers of Sinitic languages, fundamentally doesn't see a need to distinguish gender in personal pronouns.

I've been an editor enough years to know that "they" is not accepted as a pronoun referring to an antecedent in the singular number in standard written English, but I sure SPEAK English that way, and observe plenty of other native speakers of English speaking that way or even writing that way. I've also been around enough radical feminists to know that they think "he" is offensive as a general reference to an unknown person, even though that is the typical default in Indo-European languages (equivalents to "it" are disfavored because they imply the antecedent is not animate). I often structure sentences so that the sentences don't have personal pronouns, when I think my readership might take offense at nonstandard grammar or at "sexist" language. An astute observer of human society might notice that languages without gender in personal pronouns don't seem particularly to occur in societies without sexism, so perhaps an assumption that "sexist" language makes any kind of difference in people's behavior is unwarranted. The strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf_hypothesis

appears to be discredited, but research continues on the marginal effects on people's thinking that may result from accidental grammatical features of different native languages.
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I know someone who started putting together a directory of dispensaries and was able to barter a listing for $500 worth of product.

May this app soon be useful in all 50 states!
Remember that book, The Bible Code? And remember how it worked on any book, such as Moby Dick? Someone should plug the published human genome(s) into it.
Hm. Didn't know that. After all, I'm not a plumber, just someone whose father is one.
In a thousand years, with no selective pressure to preserve it, the phrase would mutate beyond recognition and probably be deleted altogether.
He cites a single example for his entire article as proof that users don't mind paying for things. Not exactly scientific, is it?

Really, we need to get back to purist capitalist principles for the web: if something provides "value", it should cost money. The culture of free has gone on way too long though, and I suspect users are just too spoiled.
That so many people are calling them idiots means they may be on to something.
Isn't this what The Innovator's Dilemma told us to do? Dip a toe in every "can't possibly get big enough to threaten our main business" business because sooner or later, something will.
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The exploit in question is called "Cheddar Bay" and had been discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=709869.
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See DarkShikari's comment for details on what goes wrong when a compiler tries to be all things to all architectures.

--------

I should clarify. I agree with what you said below, these days GCC is an excellent compiler for x86. It's just that it's near to impossible to be so excellent for all archs.
Minimum wage only means those below that wage become an increased cost to their employer. It doesn't necessarily mean that the highstreet price changes. If the market won't accept a higher price then the employer simple absorbs the cost and lives with a couple less refuelings of their private jet that year. That could potentially hurt the oil companies slightly but they just decide to cut production and charge more. The refuelers get an extra tea-break. If the price does go up then for commodities the gross profit of the owners is likely to increase - who buys less bread because the price went up by 0.0001p to account for minimum wage (rounded up to 1p, guess who gets to bank the rounding error!).

Moving on.

In an anarchic society (no government) "private security firms" do enforce law and order. The problem is that the law is "whoever is strongest (has most weapons, most money to pay their army) wins". That's it. Out of that grows a feudal system.

I'm quite glad that Christianity took hold of those in positions of power and brought us beyond that. But do feel were sliding back in that direction rather.
I got the idea for this post from something I first saw on reddit/r/math earlier this week, but I also so it here on HN (you might recognize the first proof), so I thought I'd submit this here also. Hope you like it.
Similar "logic" has inspired a number of scientists to attempt to "decode" the background microwave radiation of the universe as it has the capacity to hold the first act of Romeo and Juliet (dunno how many bits of information that comes too) ... but the idea was that IF a creator wanted to leave a message that could be found by any significantly technologically advanced organism, this would be the best place to shove it

But like another poster said - we are pattern recognition machines. Coincidences, faces, conspiracies and their ilk just leap to the forefront of our attention.... I wonder if their couldn't be a little bit of this phenomena at work in this study? Not read enough of the primary material to see if it's something they've consciously tried to factor out of the experiments
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The author concluded: "I think it would make sense for bloggers right now to start posting AP headlines and links along with a small amount of discussion on each, to keep it all within fair use, after all."

However, why not simply avoid AP? If they want to be outside the interlinked web, just let them go there. Don't link to them. Consequently, the search engines also shouldn't link to them. If they want to be in an empty room - just leave them there.

It won't take long and they'll beg to become noticed. In a few years, maybe they'll turn the corner, maybe they'll sink into insignificance. Who cares?