skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PLEASE Let us do all this with something other than XMPP. Have we not learnt by now that the claim of ultimate 'extensibility'!!! Is stupidity.

Most buzz words starting with 'X' from the 90s early 00s should be firmly laid to rest as terrible ideas built on more terrible ideas.
It did. Does it still? Maybe not, but is the problem really having lots of phones, or is that they're not good at competing in the high end where Apple is doing so well? Are the two mutually incompatible?

If Nokia had just stuck to the high end, they would have lost billions of Euros of sales. There are tons of people over here in Europe, at least, that are perfectly ok with their cheap and reliable Nokia phone.
It would be simply awesome if they can also get it on the playstation. The need there is really much greater.

The browser on the psp is based on netscape 4 or something, and has so many quirks it makes IE6 look sane.
10. Play to the top of the intelligence of the room. There aren’t any bad crowds, just wrong choices.

This is true for everything. I am constantly amazed at how many of my peers bitch about their customers and users while never doing anything to help them aspire to be what they can be.
EMC is one of those quietly explosively successful companies that nobody knows anything about, but brings in billions in revenues. I was holding Data General stock when they were acquired by EMC, and sold it soon after (just before a precipitous drop due to the tech crash), but I've often considered buying again.

Not entirely relevant, I guess, but I think I'd like to know more about the EMC story, now that I think of it. In its early days it was a stunningly sure-footed tiny player, in a field of giants, and they came out the other side of the battle a giant themselves. I aspire to that sort of story for my own ventures.
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Access Netfront actually. It’s not an awful browser (better than IE6 in many ways :) ), but you’re right, it does have its quirks. Here’s a claimed spec sheet for what I believe is the latest version:

http://www.accessdevnet.com/index.php/Web-2.0/NetFront-Speci...
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That depends how far we go with this, once the technology is there to mix in 'healthy' genes with deleterious ones the door is immediately open to add genes from a 'library' as well.

Say a couple want children, but they want a red-haired girl, even though their genetic combinations make that an impossibility (just for the sake of an example I took something from the 'cosmetics' department, not from the disease department) you could conceivably splice in the genes to make that happen.

The problem here is that even though the resulting phenotype may be the desired one that there could be any number of interactions between the 'undesired' genes and the rest of the genome to keep the genome as a whole stable across generations.

It will take a long time before we will know if that's the case or not.
It seems to me that Britain has quite a bit more of this type of protocol than the USA, for the simple historical reason that the USA abolished the aristocracy and established a republic while Britain never did.

The historical and cultural reasons are clear to me: Britain has an unelected, hereditary monarchy that historically held final authority and had people killed if they weren't subservient enough. (To be fair, England's experiment with republicanism was no less tyrannical.) Over time, more and more checks grew against royal authority until eventually they grew powerless in reality. There even seem to be a few practical benefits from having the same titular head of state for decades, since most sources agree that the Queen provides intelligent and thoughtful advice to her Prime Ministers. It's a role that most parliamentary republics have replicated, albeit in an elected role.

But there was a time when addressing a monarch by the phrase "I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient subject" actually meant what it sounds like. In practical terms, maybe royal protocol isn't a real problem. Maybe people tend to create their own royalties and aristocracies without the presence of a real one. But no, I wouldn't do it like that, though I understand and appreciate that it seems to work for Britain.
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The Road to Reality (and I'll probably be able to post this for the next 3 or more threads of this type :)

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I'm no lawyer so, certainly take this with a grain of salt:

When Fenwick put my incorporation paperwork together, I recall there being some sort of doc that assigned my equity to my wife in the event that I died or became otherwise incapacitated.

I would think that a divorce might result in ex-wife trying to get some of that equity but it may ultimately depend on your incorporation's policy and/or Board approval.
(I am so tempted to respond to this with a randomly generated list of words)
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+1 for "emphasis on measurable results"
Indeed as a web developer-designer I'd rather see people on IE8. I'm so conflicted, this is MS but they're feeding hungry people and enticing people away from IE6 - gotta love it. But it's Microsoft ... gah!

[sheepishly] Thank you Microsoft.
They don't need Chrome, just Webkit. Who knows what's stopping them.
I haven't read the article. Sorry, nytimes tends to be a bit thin on new information.

That said, Gattaca is unpractical for two very practical reasons:

First, environment matters at least as much as genetics.

Second, the Heisenberg Principle: knowing about a genetic predisposition will change it. Who do you think has a bigger chance of having diabetes: somebody who was tested at birth to have a 35% chance, or somebody with 10%? In the real world and with reasonably cheap medicine it's the second. With a 1/3 chance, not only will you have regular checkups, but you'll watch your diet and most likely take preventive medicine.

Actually I think this is a still virgin aria which may develop a lot with genetic testing: get early treatment so as _not_ to get a certain disease.
Wow - really? Sorry OP but I'm following yannis off topic here. There are some odd assumptions in that paragraph:

* Assumes that most people who need calendars are "busy people"

* Assumes that most busy people have secretaries

* Assumes that very few people really have a 'strong need' for calendar apps

I'm sorry but I disagree on all three assumptions.

* My wife is busy in the sense of raising our family but, without her Outlook calendar to remind her of important appointments, she's lost. Also, every company employee is expected to mainain some sort of computized calendar regardless of how "busy" that person is - calendar of important timelines for a project, vacation calendar, days off, etc.

* I would argue the complete opposite - most startup CEOs are busy as hell yet can't afford a secretary. I personally have a part-time exec asst but she doesn't maintain my calendar (she's part time after all). Companies like Google, MSFT, IBM, etc are full of smart, busy, 70 hour a week developers and sysadmins who don't have secretaries. I would guess that something like only 2-5% of all employees have a secretary. This one is just wrong IMO.

* This is the most debatble of the points raised but, IMO, the fact that most app suites include a calendar and probably 50% of computerized printouts at company functions include a calendar of events tells me this is also wrong.

yannis - nothing personal; I'm really not trying to single you out or just be a jerk lol (really!). I just think very differently from what you wrote.
Many FOSS projects follow that coding guideline. Helpful for people who program without GUIs (over SSH, for example) or on netbooks.
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Simple: the ability to create easy, customizable printed event calendars.
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It's hardly surprising that Adobe has problems with almost every OS upgrade, a perousal of http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ will quickly show you what garbage software it is.
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This and other amusing/interesting mathematical diversions are covered in one of Martin Gardner's books:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0226282562/
Like Wayne Gretsky said, "Skate to where the puck will be"

Of course, the flip side (as a lifelong Cubs fan) is that Android developers may be eternally chanting "wait 'til next year". It seems like the big moment for Android is always just around the corner, but never actually arrives.
Well sometimes my GF discusses her idea of future with me and it's like "we'll have a big bedroom and two parallel 30'' screen and we'll code day and night, we'll hack stuffs, we'll open startup together, our child will be a prodigy..we'll make him learn programming at an early age...blah-blah-blah".
And i wonder why she is interested more in geeky stuffs and less in sex :P. Before that I used to think girls as dumb..the opinion have changed now.She codes in linux and is a big time evangelist of FOSS, was selected in google-summer-of-code...blah-blah-blah. It's a pain-in-the-ass when your partner is more technical than yours. I of all people can truly understand his wife's pain ;)
What if remove "printed" from your sentence?

Let's say an organization wants to publish events (http://stackoverflow.carsonified.com/tickets/) customize look and feel and get comments and attendees and the software would give an easy way to do this.

That would be the public event calendar.

What do you think about it?
Mixing drinking with business is par for course in Asia overall.
Some discussion on a similar, but less comprehensive post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478632
What alternative do you suggest? It should work flawlessly on Windows, Linux and OS X, and work well even on 128kbps connections. It should work from behind routers and firewalls, and not turn my Mac into a flaming piece of plastic.

Well?
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Thanks! Here's the link: http://media.libsyn.com/media/colinmarshall/MOI_Alain_de_Bot...
LtU thread with Steve Apter (of nsl.com) explaining parsing of pure K: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1323#comment-15393
your mac has ichat.
The guy comments that criminals probably won't be smart enough to do this.

Yet plenty of criminals are able to synthesize LSD, ecstasy, and methamphetamine.
It's strange how I never heard of this one, while the other gets a lot of attention. Is it very outdated?
Actually, it's Ted Dziuba, he always writes like this. (And it's usually funny.)
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Looks like it's on sale -- you download audio or pick up the CDs for around a hundred bucks (DVD also available)
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A short video on some of the upcoming Rails 3 features like inherited resources in controllers, polymorphic associations and named scopes.

It is full with magic, those 37 LOCs are not 'raw code' just simple instructions setting up Rails to perform as a blog engine responding to both HTML, XML, JSON and Atom requests and sending notifications via AJAX.

Can you do faster and with less coding?
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> I know that if I write a C# program today that it can be called by a Boo program which in turn can be called by IronPython.

This is another reason we should be grateful for Clojure. It will have a .Net implementation soon, too.
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You really nailed the entire movies premise with this it seems. The main character isn't "suited" for his desire, but pursues it anyway, and overcomes his genetic labeling.
Rather teleological argument from Ms Rand. If the heir manages to keep the inheritance, then they deserved it, however if they lose it, they weren't worthy. Perhaps a new "Ayn Rand" inheritance tax is in order; those heirs who fail to double their inheritance within, say, 5 years, must donate them to needy, friendless orphans, these then have their chance for five years. Imagine all the stimulating entrepreneurship! Now excuse me while I go patent some alloys.
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There is some kind of "second part" to this article, published today: http://informationarchitects.jp/pronto/
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You can't trisect an arc using only a compass and a straightedge. (You can simulate a straightedge using a compass.) Dividing a line into 3 parts is trivial.
Haha, I know exactly what you mean!
* Gödel, Escher, Bach

* The Pragmatic Programmer

* Programming Clojure

* Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
a man in china invented a bike with non-circular wheels

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/ar...

http://www.china.org.cn/china/photos/2009-05/07/content_1773...
HN is a pretty specialized group so the fact that RR inspired a lot of people here isn't great data.

Very good point.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
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This is capitalism though - from the LL's point of view if they up the rent on a 5 year lease by 20% and it sits vacant for a year then they haven't lost anything (or little anyhow) they've just deferred receipt of the money.

I thought starting our own business would free me from working for "the man" - of course now I make the LL rich instead of the boss, the LL has a lot less to do (be rich) to get his money as well.
It doesn't. It, hopefully, alleviates you from counting on explicit thread numbers and threadpool mamagement - offsetting those to the OS, which presumably knows better since it has a larger scope picture of what is going on in the system.

Basically a threadpool as any other, but managed by the OS - not you.
I'm just reading Poor Folk, in honour of the Recession.
None of them chose "crap", what a suprise.

You may as well ask people to sum up their CV in one word, it would be just as useful. Everyone will just think of the most positive word possible.

Synergistic, Adventurous, Vibrant, Cool, Magical, ... hmm.
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I've been pleasantly surprised at how often I get to use my bench-top mortising machine for projects outside of mortise and tenon work.
Am I the only one that dislikes <- based assignment in languages used for mathematical computation?

if(x<-10) print("oops");
Surprised Kate didn't mention that founders were not only scrappy, but a little crazy. The combination of willpower, imagination, confidence, and the ability to listen to users/customers is like dancing with a Tasmanian devil. It always sets my neurons spinning when I try and grok an entrepreneurs rationale.
Why is GOOG always compared with MSFT ? They are way more innovative than MSFT IMHO. Atleast I love most of their products. Also they are into many other things like Google got the APPtitude competition, Google summer of code, Google CodeJam etc. As a B.tech Computer Science student most of us dream of google and not M$. Sorry if my opinion is rude and crude !!
"Busy people's calendars are normally kept by their secretaries"

Maybe 20 years ago, but then software (including calendaring software), email and voice mail came on the scene. A couple decades ago every manager had a secretary. These days, not so much.
More on this topic and a follow-on post at http://hypecycles.wordpress.com/2009/09/01/opendns-again/
Mildly helpful but then I have to find another app to handle the "printed" part. And although I would like that, if "printed" isn't a key functionality, then it would seem to be a waste of my time to integrate it (and possibly duplicate my efforts with respect to using already-ingrained corporate calendars).
Configuring and using OpenDNS, some gotchas?
On the other hand, there's the Dennis Miller ratio.
bad link. Use http://owocki.com/2009/09/01/how-to-not-piss-off-your-users-...
I had a blind childhood friend who did a little "work" with the phone system (in the era of dial phones in a small rural area) and got caught making many long distance phone calls. A call by the phone company to his parents cleared the issue up. He had a much better family than Weigman, but the stress of a blind child eventually led the parents to divorce.

My blind friend used to follow me on his bicyle all over town, and he could navigate down his own street, up the driveway, using the sound made by the trees to guide him.

What is interesting about this article is the talents we aren't using that blindness exposes.
This article is a "social media consultants" wet dream:

"Lay a foundation for a much more general computing and distribution infrastructure for context-aware, social-spreadable and trusted application scenarios that potentially enable users to regain control over their own graph of information and control access to it using social connections."

Now, back to reality...
Thanks, found it! It's a "mortise chisel and drill": a much more practical solution that I can buy!

While the Reuleaux concept is mathematically cute, it isn't very practical and is only approximate. And the Reuleaux bit requires a special chuck to ensure that the square is "upright" (not tipped at some arbitrary angle): http://upper.us.edu/faculty/smith/reuleaux.htm for details.

There's a joke in this somewhere about mathematicians and carpenters.
As e1ven mentioned, it really is pretty normal for this guy. :)
I haven't seen any adverts for Android phones pushing that they have 'Android' as a feature, nor have I seen any adverts for the Android app store. Whereas the iPhone was heavily marketed at normal consumers. It is not surprising that very few people are using the Android store, given that few people know of it's existence.

Google and the phone makers are playing the game very differently to Apple. I think it's going to be a long time before I could claim Android is a failure, it's still very early days for the project.
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I wonder if this is Sony's first step to see full adoption of Chrome OS? It is true many PC manufacturers won't offer Linux because Microsoft will deny them discount deals on copies of Windows. However, to threaten Sony would be tricky for Microsoft as they also compete in the game space. This would interest the DOJ and EU.
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Do me a favor.

Grab a piece of paper. Draw four large squares on it in such a way that they form a bigger square.

Write "Clean" and "Dirty" alongside the squares on one axis and "Funny" and "Not funny" alongside the squares on the other axis.

Now, fill in the squares with the names of comedians who meet the criteria: clean and funny, clean and not funny, dirty and funny, dirty and not funny. I'm sure you can think of more than one for each square.

After this exercise is completed, consider that comedians make their money -- and like to be judged as comedians -- based on only one of these axes. I leave it as an exercise for the reader which axis.
> In most of Europe, eugenics is deeply taboo.

That's true now, but these things can change very quickly. (For example, that taboo is relatively recent.)
This should be titled "The programmer's spouse" instead of the programmer's wife. This makes it seem like being female is the cause of having a non-technical perspective.

He says "She knows about as much as you’d expect an optometrist wife of a programmer to know about computers", but are we supposed to expect something different from an optometrist husband of a programmer?

There should be more links about programming and science at Hacker News, not some heterosexual male programmer's anecdotes about his wife, with a title which suggests that there is a pattern among the behaviour of wives of programmers.
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Actually, it's worse than that. Time machine's "snapshots" aren't snapshots - they don't represent a point in time at all. A time machine backup can complete and nevertheless be unrestorable. On filesystems that support snapshots - including Windows' - you can actually do a reliable backup, but not on OSX.
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Funny that, you don't read this particular article, you simply watch and listen to it.
Research on morality can tell you a lot about what morals people have, but it can't tell you anything about what morals people ought to have.

I think that repugnance and disgust exist precisely because they are pretty good heuristics for things humans thrived by avoiding in general (like your example of incest), and continuing to thrive may depend on allowing your disgust to influence what you do even when you can't articulate a rational reason for it.
My guess is that it is entitled "The programmer's wife" because the author is male and his spouse is female.
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I am recovering from a back injury, which started with a couple of days in bed, unable to even get up to go to the bathroom. I'm still dealing with pain even over a month after.

I recommend: eating Food, as in Michael Pollan's books. Eggs. Milk. Broccoli. Green Beans. Bananas, Strawberries, Fruit of all kinds. (Wash and freeze strawberries split in half for a convenient low calorie snack.) Produce. Steaming is fast and easy for moderate portions. Oatmeal -- the one food you can eat that doesn't rot. (Actually, of all grains, Oats rot the fastest, because they have high fat and protein content.)

I think the eggs and milk have helped me the most.

Also: be mean to your equipment if you can be kind to your body by doing so. And don't be afraid to pony up for the equipment you need, if it means you can protect your injury. Research to get the best quality and price, but don't delay it and let your body soak up wear it doesn't need. Amazon can be your friend, especially if it's hard to get out of the house.

Lastly: be polite and reasonable, but firm and gently insistent when dealing with medical personnel. You need to be your own advocate. Think ahead. Cover implications and contingencies. Ask. Think about the implications of the bureaucratic machinery, and point them out.
No, I'm not a fan either.
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