skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) sensors that small are very noise prone.
2) 2 megapixels doesn't translate to a significant difference in the size of the final image -- remember it's an area, therefore to double the size of the image, you need 4x the megapixels -- so this probably only amounts to a difference of a couple of hundred pixels in each dimension, not enough to make a significant difference in how much cropping you can do
3) larger photosites lead to lower noise

So odds are the lower resolution sensor will lead to better image quality at any chosen ISO, even if every other factor remains unchanged, including the quality of the lens.

While it's true that a good lens matters more than a few megapixels, it's also true that cameras with tiny sensors don't make images that print well due to noise.
I just built a simple, single-purpose one... it's powered by Twitter though and I hope people will use it. Let me know your thoughts everyone.
Check it out:
http://www.blibu.com
Wired had a writeup of this guy last year. Pretty interesting:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2008/02/blind_hacker?...
Official judging starts today, with public voting on apps at the end of the week.
I for one think this is awesome - particularly for those of us who sling php for a living by day and read programming romance novels by night. My contribution in a similar vein can be found here: http://commonphp.blogspot.com/
I once spoke to someone in the know about this, and the main reason is that it's quite expensive for them to do any reasonable job with stemming, etc.

I know that sounds weird (but it's google, they're omnipotent!), but it makes sense: It's worth their while to stem content they crawl and index off the web, cause everybody could in theory access any given page. However, with email, the only person who'll ever benefit is the recipient.
(a) It is a highly stylized example to illustrate game-theoretic concepts. In a sense I am asking the reader to imagine that THE GAME is about the runner getting to second or not holding all else about the game constant. That's not really baseball, but it is a baseball-like situation.

(b) The situation described is both vague (was the probability referenced by the color commentator for this runner? For this team? For this situation?) and specific (a specific runner/pitcher pair, there are zero outs not two).

(c) You are right about the goal of baseball. I had originally written it with the goal being scoring. But then it is a vastly more complex game.
Making the Clackity Noise
Nonlinear properties of market prices are as important as economic fundamentals
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Finally, someone else who feels this way! I've never understood why people praise the search in GMail so much.
Spam spoofs e-mail client
Apple to release Snow Leopard on Friday
I thought he was OK, but noticeably trying too hard.
whatever i said is from common endusers perspective and not from YC news reader's(who are mostly techies) point of view - just like the way we switch our browser right now ... we will be able to do the same with the OS!! or even better, there will be multiple browser OS preinstalled, you pick what you want....

as far as h/w platform is concern it would be too early to make a call, we may think right now that intel will lead the market/platform as they now support both (PC & MAC) but i wont be surprised if there are new players... especially from taiwan and china!!!

And even if intel dominates the microprocessor market, I really wonder how would a common man will differentiate a MAC laptop with Lenovo's thinkpad because all they have installed is the same Browser-OS (chrome, safari etc.) on the same platform (intel), with the same specs(say 4GB RAM, 5 USB ports, 2HDMI, same display card.... etc.) and almost everything else is on the cloud .... i guess then it would be all about speed, power and exterior look/design of the laptop??!!!
This is fine if the package maintainers are relatively up-to-date with the software you require, but often they aren't. Ubuntu Hardy's version of Ruby 1.9 is pretty outdated and thus probably doesn't include, amongst other things, some rather vital security fixes.

Don't get me wrong—I'm all in favour of package managers. Sometimes, however, they aren't sufficient.
Hurl looks cool:

http://ozmm.org/posts/hurl_preview.html

Kind of like a web-based version of HTTP Client:
http://ditchnet.org/httpclient/
Brilliant post and great improvement on the design. It is much easier to look at and absorb. This goes along with the intent of my comment on the "Eye candy is a critical business requirement" post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781315
Think pie. Think pie and space shuttles. Pie = Simple and delicious. Shuttles = Complex and metallic. Pie = Shuttle Killer. 'Nuff said.

If you're not going to make any sense, you might as well go all the way.
Given enough lipstick, you can smother the pig.
Twitter Postings: Iterative Design
The Design Dilemma: Succession is the price of success
How Google Manages Apps Across Data Centers
It's mostly a starters guide from the UK/Dutch perspective wrt to the people presented, also most of this is general advice and has very little to do with the unique situation in Europe (except the bit by Simone).
I do believe it is a survival issue. Call me extreme but if we don't start making the manufactured landscape beautiful we are going to destroy the "natural" landscape completely. I would rather everyone be fed, clothed, sheltered and educated. If we cover those bases the chances of living in a more aesthetically appealing world are much higher.
The Server Density storage backend – utility storage from Rackspace
i'm also an AYCJ pass-holder. i'm a bit more tied down due to work, but this seemed like something where collaborating would definitely help everyone make the most of it. i created a facebook group because it seemed like the lowest barrier to entry ( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=123309380809 ), but if anyone else has other ways of discussing/sharing, post them here. http://wherewejet.com/ looks like they'll be updating, but i was hoping for something social.
yep, one of the few sinatra apps by one of the github guys. very cool.

I actually did my app in merb, i think i might be the only one
Cities are a different beast.
Agreed, although Simone Brummelhuis does mention some specific programs founders can apply to.
Re "and probably won't understand code written thus".

Rather than giving up on the masses of "PHP coders" by labeling them incapable of functional style programming, recursion, etc, why not try to show them? If they're capable of wading through the inconsistencies of PHP they're pretty damn capable in my book. Sure they may lack the rigors of a computer science background but that doesn't mean they're uninterested.

Showing a "PHP coder" a different paradigm of programming in a different language is going to be less effective than trying to express it in the language they know. Personally, I'm really enjoying the challenge of taking the beautiful concepts taken for granted in many other programming language circles and teaching/expressing them in a language understood by the "masses".
I'm suddenly reminded of the Eggers novel "You Shall Know Our Velocity!" wherein the characters go on a week-long international journey trying to give away an inherited sum of money.

Sounds like a great experiment. I'm especially interested to see if these bizarre flights trigger any inquiry by authorities.
I'm still in my 20s, so take my limited business experience with a grain of salt. But every time I've witnessed a company pre-announce an aggressive hiring binge like this, what happened was a hiring surge followed by an equally precipitous exodus less than 18 months after the announcement. It's funny that the article mentions cash flow because the exoduses I have seen have been precisely because cash flow got out of hand with the implementation of the strategy. It's not just salaries that increase. People need places to work so new office space needs to be acquired; the IT infrastructure needs to be updated to accommodate the new hires; people get promoted into positions overseeing the new hires where they prove to be incompetent and this results in wasted labour and duplicated effort; etc. One of the reasons I think such a hiring binge is terrible is because it usually causes forward momentum of the company to slow drastically if not stop entirely. The 12 month transition period where the company is trying to come to terms with everything is a prime opportunity for competitors to pounce and steal away revenue, resulting in cash flow to slow.
Why not take it a little bit further and try to break the current world record, which is set at 135 flights ;)

http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/_New-record-for-th...

But I guess that would ruin the fun.
Before Daikatana, there was Hurd:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurd
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Hi all, I am looking for some good sources related to web investments to do some market research for an internship at a socal VC firm. Anything similar to socaltech, venturebeat, wsj (tech related), would be great. Ideally sources with case studies & numbers.

Thanks.
I think I hit the same problem occasionally, but I can usually keep trying different keywords until I find one that works. If he only tried 4 keywords like he writes, then there was probably some word in the email that would have been at least semi-unique. Maybe "earbud" or "order" or something. Then browsing or date-based filtering can usually do the rest. Kind of a pain, but not enough for me to ditch GMail completely.
God damn ... I remember reading that piece years ago and thinking to myself, "Man, DFW really knows what's up. Deep down, he's really got it together. There's a lot of fucked up shit in this world, and he's looked at it head on, and come to grips with it, and has the bravery and strength to move on."

And then he killed himself. The world is such a strange place.
I know the history of Nokia and open source.

If you give me candies and later on you make me suck your cock that doesn't make you adorable.

I'll leave this question open: why not just offer BOTH options, Win7 AND Ubuntu? Not OR, NOR, XOR, FOR or anything ambivalent.

I here request Nokia to deliver BOTH win7 AND Ubuntu!

Show us you're not being strongarmed by M$ like everybody else in the netbook world.

Pussies.
You're thinking of advertising rather than marketing as a whole.

Think of marketing as the social component of design. You wouldn't start coding an application before you had at least a rough design of what its functionality would be, right? So why would you start designing a product before you identified who is going to use it and what they will be using it for? Marketing answers those questions.

In rough, marketing identifies your market: Who will be using your product and why. Your application / business is then built using that knowledge.
Using coin flips gives a terrible example. The odds are actually pretty high that the coin will be heads next.

Suppose there are 1 billion coins in circulation, 100 of which are double sided [1] (due to magicians accidentally spending them, etc). Then:

P(double sided) = 10^{-7}.

P(30 heads in a row) = 10^{-7} + (1-10^{-7}) x 9.31 x 10^{-10} ~= 10^{-7}

P(double sided | 30 heads in a row) = P(30 heads in a row | double sided) x P(double sided) / P(30 heads in a row) = 1 x 10^{-7}/ 10^{-7} = 1

(Via Bayes rule.) So the coin is probably double sided and the gambler is right. The mathematician who lacks common sense is wrong.
But, you have to agree, that all they had when they were done was shit that was shiny. :)

I guess they got the idea from the Japanese' kids' pastime of polishing mudballs? http://web-jpn.org/trends01/article/011005sci_r.html

I have had that link in my bookmarks bar forever, just to remind me what a crazy, unpredictable, irrational species we are.
This might be an artifact of the way your cc company presents the transactions. BofA shows me a list of "pending" transactions and then the transactions that have actually posted.
Weight affects our perceptions of importance
While I agree with your main point it does seem pretty close. The right thing to do would be to do some math and figure out what the probability is that it's just a coincidence.
Free Software Foundation will host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software
Thanks - this makes more sense. Just a scheduler wouldn't explain how "With GCD, threads are handled by the operating system, not by individual applications. GCD-enabled programs can automatically distribute their work across all available cores, resulting in the best possible performance whether they’re running on a dual-core Mac mini, an 8-core Mac Pro, or anything in between."
Y Combinators in C#
That sounds like a completely miserable way to waste a month.
Why Android will not catch the iPhone
There's a difference between taking advantage of a bargain and being a glutton.

83 segments in 30 days just to see how many you can do? Sounds foolish and selfish (How many others with $599 passes won't be able to get the seats they need because of you?)

Imagine how much fun you could have if you did this sensibly.

Sure, you can go to an all-you-can-eat buffet and eat until you vomit, but why would you?
I was leaning more on the 'preachers' that talk about how people that aren't perfect are going to hell, and make all sorts of 'fire and brimstone' sermons... and then they get caught spending the collection plate money on a gay prostitutes.

Also similar are those 'televangelists' that end up spending all the money they collect on a mansion, expensive cars, and hookers.
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Single page version: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/12/seven_myths...
BizConf 2009 - A Retrospective
Yeah. But that's slumming it when I explain things for the dimwits. I felt dirty afterward.
The Pirate Bay Taken Offline
I hope they build more robust searching into their Wave client.
There's also a large body of PHP coders who are smart and continue learning new things, but you don't hear as much about them because they don't publicly humiliate themselves on the internet, and aren't such easy targets for disrespect.
“We regret that we are unable to place your company as a TechCrunch50 finalist…”
I believe that in order to qualify for the seat, you have to make your reservations ahead of time. You don't just show up, then get your seat stolen out form under you, and return home in tears.

Furthermore, you could apply this to virtually anything. Ever been to an all-you-can-eat buffet? Every shrimp you eat is a shrimp that some poor retiree won't get to eat.

You monster.
Is this an empty life?
Not to mention their employment of Guido and Alex Martelli.
I wish the site were already up, with an RSS feed. I will not remember to check that domain in a week.
That's really clever how he auto-forwards all his gmail messages to yahoo. I wish I had done something like that form the get go. Too late now. Here is a Lifehacker article explaining how to use automate gmail backups with sendmail and cygwin:

http://lifehacker.com/235207/geek-to-live--back-up-gmail-wit...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/923225/does-google-use-py...
The only trouble with that is that if they piss off too many of the people who they pay or who use their free services, then they won't have anyone willing to pay them; isn't that a variation of what's happening to the newspapers?
I put the probably of it being coincidence at 100%.
How is this site NOT propaganda?
Am I not reading this carefully enough?
Some of the cost goes to profit/shareholders, but most of it's just pissed right down the drain with our 20% administrative rate.
Wait, you're saying this article, which is about the past, somehow requires prescience? So the now-past is different from the future-past? Can we compare the now-past with the past as it will be on 9/1 and somehow glean a way to make piles of money?
Apple May Be Highest Grossing Fifth Avenue Retailer
Corollary: To increase the integrity of your site, all you have to do is make some mistakes, then retract them a few days later. :)
So much for all those claims that they could not take tpb offline even if they wanted to.

What I don't get about the legal angle of the case is that they had their re-trial refused, but doesn't that give them the chance to do a normal appeal anyway ?
My main concern would be that you miss a flight - then subsequently miss all your remaining flights and have to pay some sort of penalties.

Don't listen to the haters - this could be a great experience.
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'false' still equals 0.
That sounds like a completely depressing way to approach life.
Storage via dispersal doesn't need complete copy to restore data
Take that, Mister Ozone Layer!
The UK is notorious for their safety precautions. Not only do all plugs have a fuse in them, but wall outlets are usually behind a local fuse even before a home's circuit breaker.

The fold out wings provide a great way to minimize the possibility of contact with the live contact.

And it's just so pretty!
Not that this isn't interesting, but aren't you supposed to be, you know, running a startup?

EDIT: Now that I'm poking around a little, I don't see any reference to a startup on any of your sites or anything, but I thought you had one (perhaps Frogmetrics?). Was I mistaken?
He claims that nuclear power can't do anything because we can't build plants fast enough and that plant-construction costs have been rising.

The first is a red-herring. It depends a lot on climate projections and so forth. And since it's faster to expand nuclear power than any other emissions-free power, it's not actually an argument not to do it.

The second is more problematic. Cost. Maybe we've lost the ability to build cheap nuclear plants like we could in the 1960s. Maybe modern regulatory and labor problems are unsolvable. But I don't think so. They're a heck of a lot easier to solve than basic technology problems, which is what we're still running into with other forms of energy.
LOL. Although your comment provides no insightful value to this discussion, I will admit you're funny.
Parrot just hit version 1.5. Maybe I don't see what your point is, but I think Parrot is a sure-fire thing.
I actually heard that it's quite costly to index emails for gmail (not from a gmail source, just random web chatter). It makese sense. Most emails are not important, they are just huge amounts of random chatter. I'd imagine indexing emails (full-text) properly would require some effort. The gmail team is probably on a budget :)

But then again, if they can index the web. Why not email.
Conventional wisdom is that long slow jogs are a good way to get healthier. The clinical evidence indicates most people would do better with some sub mile sprinting.

Does the book address the physiological damage documented in my link?
Propaganda for or against whom? It seems quite balanced to me.
Looks like good ol' fashion resin 3D printing or rough form injection molding. Most university ID shops have those facilities now-a-days.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fused_deposition_modeling more specifically)
What gives me hope for Android is all the people coming out of the woodwork insisting it's going to fail. There has to be something to Android to keep it in our collective consciousness, right?

I mean, we're not talking about how Symbian or WinMo devices will never catch the iPhone.

It doesn't have to be number 1 to be worthwhile; if the Android platform had even a quarter of the ecosystem the iPhone has, it would be an enormous success.
Nuclear plants were cheap in the 60s?
G.ho.st, as most startups are facing a major challenge nowadays. I wish that G.ho.st will make it, even if i was the software architect in G.ho.st and the one who built the RND, i have debates as which model is better: Google model offering services through out the browser, or G.ho.st model offering services within one browser instance!
Facebook is hitting majority adoption while Twitter is stealing the early adopters. They are simply in separate places on the adoption curve.
Sorry, I didn't know what blog spam was when I submitted first link (which was linked to from another blog I read).
Two brothers, no fears and $1 billion empire
Data explosion is a bigger I.T. concern than trendy clouds/mobile-devices
It is interesting that they felt confident enough to nail down an exact date for the crash- and not at all surprising that they were wrong.
http://blog.yousefgh.com/2009/03/moving-online-with-your-dat...
Not if you consider that it was a joke it doesn't :-)
Tesla and the car industry is a whole other beast. I think with software and internet companies, you can have many more clever hacks for barriers that competitors have set up.
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Also, "according to both Apple’s and AT&T’s responses to the FCC inquiry, AT&T in fact played no role..."

So we're just taking their word for it? Did they provide any evidence that this was the case?
I swear I've read that article before, so it's recycled anyway.
Car companies to start require many orders of magnitude of investment greater than any YC startup. Sort of puts it into a different class.
You could also generate PHP code from Scheme or Common Lisp. That way you can write in the language you like and update the codebase.
Yeah, you're not using a framework.
I have hit this problem too. If you subscribe to the git email list, but only want to look at discussion, not patches, it ought to be possible to filter out the patches with 'subject:patch'. But this doesn't completely work, because quite often the patches have patchv2 patchv3 etc, which doesn't match.

The curious thing is that google groups is even more painful; where you would think it would be more worth having the indexes, because more people are going to search the same data.
Amusing comment, however a fair coin is not double sided by definition. :)

In any case, I changed the example from 30 to 10 tosses, so that we avoid "missing the forest for the trees".
Gmail search is fast. On outlook, a desktop mail client, it can take up to an hour to search for a simple term, in my experience.
His analogy compares two completely unrelated things. Twitter and Facebook are both social media platforms for connecting, building networks, and sharing information.
But checkinstall (rather than make install) still uses the up-to-date source files. It just allows your package manager to remove the application when you're done with it (e.g. when you're ready to upgrade to a sill-newer version).
Really. What aspect of the project do you find most appealing? Standing on line, seeing the inside of many airports and sometimes the same ones many times, negotiating airport security, eating unhealthy food from airport concessionaires, not getting any exercise, constantly being concerned about your schedule?

But I am looking forward to the incredible web page which I am sure Dustin will create based on the miserable experience.
I imagine the airline anticipated people doing this, and they are more than happy to have the publicity. (My guess is they are flying a bunch of empty seats lately because of the economy, so the marginal cost is very small.)
So is it?
I was really happy with where we were with ours:

http://mocksup.r09.railsrumble.com/

Until a couple last minute changes by me unknowingly broke our main feature, which is adding links to mockups. Dammit.

But, it was really fun and a great way to get started on an app idea.
When does the author talk about double sided coins? The example is based on the premise that the coin is fair and each toss is independent of the others.
I think a more exciting approach to life would be to pick a handful of the cities, and spend some time enjoying each of them. Airports are not that interesting.
Ask HN: What does the image on http://paulgraham.com/index.html signify?
Is there any underlying meaning top it? Does the statue in the image signify anything (like Greek/roman gods/goddesses)? Many a times I wonder what is it...