skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Nostradamus level BS: he predicted the data of the Chinese stock market collapse incorrectly, it then later crashed, and people are giving him credit for "calling it" in hindsight of it actually crashing.

I'm calling for a massive, rapid recovery of the US economy. It will happen, hmm, next Thursday at noon. If it happens a few months or years later, well, I called it, so what if the timing was a little off.
Nokia launches laptop - The Register
Why GAWK for AI?
interesting story. Do you think it would have made a difference if they felt your illness was an "emergency"? Even in the U.S. paying out of pocket for a well respected doctor, you still have to wait for an appointment. The only way you really get immediate treatment just about anywhere is to go to an emergency room and let them prioritize based on who's there at the time.
No, it means that there is more to your life than just hacking.

I know quite a few people who simply do nothing but hack day & night, outside of their digital life there is not much to them. No significant other, no other 'distractions' just the keyboard and the screen.

I can imagine that if you do not know people like that that the above sounds somewhat fantastic, but it's really true.
"Its first netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G, will use Microsoft’s Windows software and Intel’s Atom processor"

There, doomed.

If you don't extend your arms to the open source community, don't expect us to open our arms when you need us.

Fuck you Nokia.
It is a good word. I'm not saying people shouldn't use it. It is an ugly, ugly word to me - I hate the sound of it, which is part of why it is my least favorite. It's one of those words that sound like what they mean to me. What is that called anyway? Not onomatopoeia.

I also tend to hate it because I can tell before even starting to fix the kludge, it's likely to involve an large overhaul instead of a small bug fix.
all great points. i love gmail's bells and whistles but there is something a little unsettling about how they "handle" customer service.
Holy shit. Early chrismas!
Three out of four charges against Terry Childs have been dismissed
As suggested in the essay those are Dawkins' words paraphrased. If you haven't already, I recommend reading The Selfish Gene. It's awesome.
The first version of Chicago's logo was better than the current one, IMHO: http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/chicago-olympic-logo-2016/

The original logo was nixed by the Olympic Committee because it was shaped like a torch, and the torch is "Olympic-related imagery." http://www.suntimes.com/sports/olympics/389836,CST-NWS-torch...
You can't really have a race to the top. That type of competition "narrows" the top. The race becomes an illusion.
"A pilot returning to an air base safer because there's one less SVBID on the road has more of a sense of his strike's impact than the contractor in the trailer at Langley."

Although the pilots are physically removed from the strike, many are mentally and emotionally "in the moment". Many of the remote pilots still have to deal with post traumatic shock disorder. The really messed up thing is that the pilots then have to return home to families and normal life with the knowledge that they just ended some lives a few hours before dinner. It's not a problem for all the pilots, but it is a problem that the military has to handle.
Not to be a wet blanket but I don't like the Madrid logo at all. Many see it as a welcoming hand; I see it as a (e.g., policeman) ordering me to stop. It's almost shouting "go away, we don't want you here!". And no, I've nothing to feel guilty about. Well, excluding a strict religious upbringing decades ago.

Still better than London's though.
If you need to type the same thing over and over, something's usually wrong with what you're doing...
Alright Arrington - Where is the CrunchPad already?
I know Michael reads Hacker News so hopefully he can shed some light on the absence of Crunchpad news. I thought there was supposed to be an event last month, and yet other than the leak from a Korean newspaper we haven't heard a thing?

My birthday is in a few days and it's going to be hard for me to get a Crunchpad if nobody knows anything about it ;)
You can, even for free...

http://www.messagebunker.com/
What's offensive about this? Sure, it's obviously McDonald's trying to increase its profile amongst a specific demographic but, um, so what?
I think that is only core, though, not the standard lib. It started for me with hearing the rumor that JSON would be part of the standard lib of Ruby 1.9. I was unable to confirm that online. Eventually I peeked into the "Programming Ruby" book in a bookshop and thus was able to confirm that Ruby 1.9.1 indeed comes with JSON.
They only have docs for core, not for the standard library.
I think that's how most kludges are born. Someone is given the assignment to repair something, they figure out that it will take them way too much time doing it the 'proper' way (their boss might simply not give them a time budget large enough to fix it well) so they resort to a kludge.
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Quantum Bogodynamics: Reading the Jargon File
Awesome. I love how they incorporated flat stones as steps. I hope we see more biology hacks like this incorporated into our lives in the future.
i realized that i misread this original post. you are saying that what you do (study the brain) is more important than what some other scientists do (empirically study complex functions). i think this is kind of impolite for scientists to do in public, though of course, everyone makes jokes about it in their own company. anyway, after rereading, the only positive statement i take issue with is this:

> There is something fundamental about the scientific method. Namely, it's the learning algorithm; the only one that actually actually works (so far). Everything else is just variations on or approximations of this algorithm.

i believe that what i call the scientific method is merely a variation on/approximation of bayesian inference.
Just an FYI to everyone - it looks like the url of the post was changed to this link.
So how does it work - after a while rootbridges.blogspot will change to only contain ads for penis enhancements? How does one identify such things?

I must admit I actually preferred the layout and presentation of the blogspam variant.
Umm, yeah are you offended by Black Entertainment Television? It's been around since the early 90s; created by enterprising african americans, which i bet a same demographic created this!
I'm half-Vietnamese and I would find it absolutely hilarious if McDonalds had a recruiting site targeting Vietnamese people. Or even just children of Asian immigrants. It could have advice on how to deal with your parents when they flip out that you're a) serving fries and b) not a doctor.
I don't know about Quickly or Glade, but Rails doesn't really use generators in the way you're thinking of. What Rails calls generators are more like the new project wizards or new class wizards,etc. most IDE's like Eclipse, etc. They create a couple of files with the skeletal outline of the required structure, etc.

It's not like some of the "enterprise" java tools that generate thousands of lines of incomprehensible code.
Marching through quicksand
That looks very good. I really hope they become commercially available and commonplace.
Is the description 'Rails-like' used accurately here? Based on this article, it sounds like Quickly generates boilerplate code and a makefile. Rails is playing on a much higher level, allowing you to describe how the actual interface and data behaves.
The Android Market application uses only Google Checkout. There's no PayPal (or any other) option.
The analyst quoted in the article thinks that it may just be an experiment for now. Maybe using Windows is the quickest way for them to get to market and test their product. Just because they chose Windows for this first launch doesn't mean they won't use open source for netbooks in the future.
Another angle:

How many of the tags you use to idendify yourself are actually group membership tags... e.g. pythonista, founder, etc.?

How many of the activities you do only make sense in the context of people (productive member of society stuff)? Even more, how many of the things you do are because of the consequences for or from others (feed your family, help your friends, do something recognized as really cool)?

Where "me" stops and society begins is always a bit fuzzy.
WARNING: Outraged people being outraged!

Companies have been targeting specific demographics since the beginning of time. Most McDonalds commercials on the radio are recorded using black people. But not the one for their iced-mocha coffee drinks! What, are they trying to say that motivated, independent business women like coffee? Sexists! Racists! Misogynists! Communists!
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Why developers should build single-purpose websites
They do have a site for Asian customers: http://www.myinspirasian.com/
the products of a thing often supersede it.

in this case, the development of inference is certainly a consequence of the development of the scientific method. but the validity of the latter is a mathematical consequence of the validity of the former. bayesian inference is more fundamental.

another good book that informs my personal views on this matter: http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Logic-Science-Vol/d...
Ironically, as an African-American, I find this article far more offensive than the McDonald's site.
GCD is an updated and up-rated scheduler for Mac OS X.

The following does contain marketeering, but also has some decent technical details:

http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_...
I could see integrating crappy onboard graphics cards with a small slice of the CPU, but integrating a full modern GPU would be hard. The issue is memory bandwidth. A 285 GTX has 159 GB/sec of memory bandwidth and 1GB of ram. For 250$ you can get 4GB of DDR3-1600 but that's only 38GB/s. So, if you want good preformance and low cost you need to seperate the video memory from system memory. But, now you have two set's of memory that each need to be close to the CPU/GPU for latency issues.

So, 2022's high quality cellphones, laptop's, and desktops are probably still going to use CPU, RAM, GPU, VRAM. But, I can see them mixing at the low end.
Ask HN: My accounts: Twitter hacked? GMail hacked? Computer hacked?
Last night when I got home I found over 50 emails from Twitter proclaiming that such-and-such person was now following me on Twitter. I have never had a Twitter account, nor do I want one.

After a bit of searching around I verified that there had been no activity in my GMail account since I left on Friday, so they couldn't have accessed the confirmation email to verify the Twitter account... How is it then that whoever was able to create a Twitter account for my email and have it be verified and usable? Has Twitter been hacked in some way?

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has experienced the same thing... Sorry for the slightly inflammatory title BTW, I'm not sure how else I could describe the issue.

-A
McDonald's has also been selling "Shamrock Shakes", green mint-flavored milkshakes that used to have an Irish mascot, for about forty years.
I just can't wait for my browser to becomes my OS - it would be a game changing scenario - it won't matter what is pre-installed, you'll be able to switch your OS in a second ... it won't even matter what h/w you are using (PC on intel, MAC on intel, Linux on whatever) ....

i wonder how much a h/w platform or pre-installed s/w would matter in one's life when a browser is your new OS and almost all your apps are on the cloud !!!
I think people of all races, colors, and creeds can come together to be offended by this hand-waving, contentless, link-baiting nonsense that somehow hasn't been flagged into oblivion yet.

Maybe that's just me.
"Mom and Dad, I have good news and bad news. The good news is, I'm finally going to college. The bad news is, I'm going to Hamburger University."
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Dammit, and Ford's doing it too: http://www.fordurban.com/

You know what, I'm not going to compile all of these out there. But if you're surprised by this, you might be an engineer (and not a marketer). /That's right, I went Foxworthy on you.
Under "Asian Phrases Challenge" you can learn how to say "Let's go do some karaoke." Priceless.

I also like that they're "Asian" phrases.
They also have a website for Asians (http://myinspirasian.com) and Latinos (http://meencanta.com) - in all three cases they have some light "general interest" content, but the majority is dedicated to their careers section.

In other words, McDonalds is using demo-specific websites to promote hiring from within those communities. How is this news?
black entertainment brings a great deal of cultural differences that may or may not be more suited to black people. But food?
Computer history (nicest read from the bottom up)
Initially coming from a mechanical engineering background, I was always puzzled by the "hacker" expression. The qualities that people attribute to "hackers" on this site are the qualities of any good engineer; the ability to find creative "shortcut"-like solutions to hard problems, the ability to apply advanced mathematics (or computer science, in this case) to real-world problems, to understand business needs, etc. Needless to say that many start-up founders are engineers themselves.

But this is really just a terminology question so if people here prefer calling themselves hackers instead of engineers or computer programmers, well, I can live with that.
I'll tell you why: Google Checkout is doing the same PCI kludge that we do at Dawdle. We only do the $1 authorization charges, and we get people screaming at us all the time. Users hate being "charged" for stuff that they didn't purchase, and lots of people check their stuff online frequently.

But it turns out that you can't be PCI compliant if you store credit cards in distributed virtual servers (it violates the physical access tenet), so they can't store CCs. So you have to do an auth and then a reference transaction off of the auth.
this is what i would do if i were in your shoes, in this order:

- change your email password immediately. just in case.
- fix the title of this article because its misleading.
- inspect those emails a little closer. they might be bogus. could be spam/phishing.
- see if you can get a password reset from twitter to see if there's an account registered to you.

act appropriately on what you've found.
> I'm not sure how else I could describe the issue.

Try 'my accounts on' as a prefix ?
Basically someone goes out and finds some interesting content and rips it off. They register a wordpress/blogger account and throw all the content up along with some google ads. You submit it to Reddit/Hacker News/Digg/Fark.com whatever and drive traffic to it.
I will admit that they've started to get a little more courteous at least-they're 'attributing' the source material sometimes so they're not outright stealing the content.
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One of the best workarounds I've seen. Sometimes full solutions are just not possible (i.e. changing the whole standard plug system in a country).
TweetPhoto iPhone App Rejected Because Logo Resembles Polaroid Shot
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The economic crash is not a failure of computer models or even complex models. It's a failure based on a single simple assumption: house prices never go down.
Yes, your IP is banned. A few of us were banned for using the greasemonkey script you mentioned, so unless you've done anything malicious recently, that's likely the reason.

I apologised to PG directly and he kindly removed the ban for me.
The Bugle (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/...) pointed out quite correctly that until the US started talking smack about the NHS, bitching about the NHS was a favorite past time of the British. Now it seems that everyone is up in arms defending it.

I lived in the UK for many years and have both good and bad experiences with them. I think as a general rule NHS and similar appear fine to you if all that happens to you are routine patches and checkups.

But if something really bad happens like cancer or the like, you really want to be in the US where there are more advanced treatments. This is also why you always hear about fundraising events to send children with rare cancers to the US. There are many things wrong with the US health care system, but none of those things change the fact the the US still have the highest level of advanced care in the world.

And oh yes "Socialist" is a dirty word. According to U of Hawaii Socialists killed nearly 170 million people in the 20th century (http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM). That would qualify it as a dirty word. To create an egalitarian socialist society with job safety and free health care for all you must create a web of control and get rid of all the annoying people such as small businessmen, farmers and intellectuals might prove your ideas are wrong.

Now Western European Socialism (I spent 6 of my formative years in the Social Democratic Youth in Denmark and was a true believer) is not out to kill off their opponents, rather they bribe them to convert over to the dark side. In my country an incredible 55% of voters receive their primary income from the government, as you can imagine even the "right" don't dare to propose real changes. I have heard similar figures for the UK.

Besides to make a "socialist" welfare state economically viable you need conformance. This comes with a huge loss of privacy. Tony Blair created an incredible surveillance state, Hitler and Stalin would have been proud.

Contact Point the social services database of all UK children and their school and medical activities went live a few months ago, to make sure no one falls through the cracks. UK parents are supposed to be happy that the database is only available to 390,000 individuals. Sorry that scares the hell out of me.
Let me preface this with the fact that I don't think the author had any bad intentions here.

That said, the article exposes a latent mentality of "there are white people and then there's this big group of 'diverse' non-white people who are all pretty much the same."

So let me get it straight: the author is offended by the idea of having community sites that appeal to different cultures and thinks the solution is ... having "a diversity website saying they support all different kinds of cultures, races, charities and organizations" instead?? Give me a break.

IMHO "celebrating diversity" isn't pretending that there are no differences and putting all minorities under one big umbrella; it's knowing that we're all different, having no problem with it, and enjoying the variety.
Don't you get some serious problem with quantum mechanical effects when you have such thin line widths?

Is it physically possible to reach 4 nm with current computer architecture?
Huh. Nokia is pretty much the #1 sugar daddy of open source in the mobile tech business. In the past year, they have:

* Bought Symbian and open-sourced the entire OS.

* Bought Trolltech, relicensed the Qt toolkit to LGPL, and developed new Python bindings from scratch.

* Poured investment into Maemo, including 3G phone support (check out the upcoming Nokia N900).

They're just testing the waters with this new Windows 7 notebook. (Did you notice that the screenshots are mostly showing Ovi Suite 2.0 which is Qt-based and will be available on Linux as well?)
It is not true at all that your odds of getting to second base are the same whether you steal or do not steal. Consider a situation with two outs. Stealing percentage is usually around 70%, so if you steal you are likely to get to second. But on-base percentage is generally less than 50%, so if you do not steal you are not likely to get to second.

In general this is not the right way to use game theory to analyze baseball. The relevant goal isn't getting to second base, it's winning the game, with a good proxy of scoring runs. If you successfully steal with no outs you are much more likely to score a run than you are if you advance later when there are two outs. So getting to second is a bad proxy for scoring runs.
1 server with an extra $500 in RAM can do some pretty fancy stuff with virtualization.
Why Can't Gmail Search?
Nice!

I wonder how well the moving contacts to bring the power from the live and neutral to the power cable will survive, though - they may become worn and intermittent with time.

Do we really need the fold-out wings? Could we not just rotate the live and neutral pins into place, then plug it in? Or do the standards require a certain outline to keep fingers from the plugging-in bits?
Marvin Minsky wrote a couple of books on the subject - the link is the fist chapter to one of them (The Emotion Machine and Society of Mind). They're pretty much what you're saying.
Remember GNU/Hurd?
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Thras, I'll ask you this completely sincerely, because I don't and never have understood this. Why do you, and people like you, get off from reading a lengthy debate on a topic online, and ignoring every point except the one that's not a point, then snarking about it? It's not just you: A lot of people do it, and it baffles me. I always really enjoy being told why my opinion on something is wrong, and these snarky responses don't seem to prove anything.
This might be the most annoying TED speaker ever (come to think of it, the only one).

He might have something valuable to say but his voice and attitude are just too aggravatating to keep listening.
But you still consider them rude, or jerks - which they are, reason or not. That's not avoiding reality.
And if you click through the site has horribly offensive sections like:

Education (scholarships)
Employment
Career Development
Entrepreneurship

There is a reason I don't read Digg.
Word Amy, like the design. Just seeing the screens in the header graphic alone give me more of an idea what the application actually does. Pictures that describe things are good. In the first design, I simply scanned all the bold text, had no idea what the product did, and closed the page.

I don't have a TV, but watched an episode of MythBusters at a hotel the other week, and they were polishing shit collected from the zoo. I think they were able to get some very shiny and polish shit out of the whole thing... so... polished shit is not a myth!
Who wrote the browser? The window manager? The compiler, assembler, and linker? What about computer games? I don't see us doing Crysis in Javascript any time soon.

The web is great for some things, but some things aren't everything.
And they should be searchable on the web. Somehow I can't stop thinking that this announcement is a misguided followup to the "Think twice before naming your new programming language" article posted a few day ago http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779108
Without openid or similar federated login a downside is that people are reluctant to register.
The material in this talk doesn't only apply to business. imo, every parent could benefit from considering an angle other than rewards and punishments.
I can understand Google's reasoning. I doubt people browsing the Arch Linux website are going to click on the ads. Google probably pays Arch Linux per impression, so Google and the advertiser are losing money. And what's Google to do, tell you that your users are just too smart to click on any ads? They pretty much did:

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we found that your AdSense account has posed a
significant risk to our AdWords advertisers.