skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have about 16k and it's almost unusable. From what I hear the PC version performance is much worse than the Mac version though.
I must stand up in defense of the Newton. It was way ahead of its time when it came to user experience. Version 1.0 was like most version 1.0s not quite ready and its handwriting recognition took a lot of criticism (even getting Doonesbury to riff on it). By version 2.0, that problem was completely fixed. Alas, 2.0 came 2 1/2 years after 1.0 and was too little too late. In addition, NewtonScript was an excellent language to program in (able to create apps quickly with a minimum of effort).

The Palm Pilot wouldn't have been what it was without Newton having tested the ground first and finding the mines.
Why would more automation lead to more people out of work? Automation simply increases productivity; productivity gains have increased by numerous factors of 10 in the past few centuries and workforce participation rates have consistently _increased_.
Thanks, I'll add that real quick. Thanks for taking it as well!
Try keeping an eye out for certain models of older vehicles. I like old VW's but there is no way to easily say, "just show me Volkswagens made before 1980", it takes a query like.. (1948|1949|1950|1951|1952....|1979)

Now I have those bookmarked and saved, but for someone like my dad who also likes Volkswagens, he doesn't know thats possible so has to weed through hundreds of newer VW ads. Thus its painful.
Spotify is cool. It's not available in my country. Happy with grooveshark.com
I think the quantities we consume of soda are frightening. It's so unlike anything we are evolved to consume that it was the first thing I eliminated from my diet when I started trying to eat healthier.
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Wired's editorials have fallen off a cliff. It'S sad, they used to be the best.

Craigslist make $100+M and growing with almost no overhead. Their UI works great, is very functional, and iconic. They have made it possible for millions to connect and saved consumers billions in classifieds. What has Conde Nast done?
Ok, that is much larger than mine. :-)
I'm just curious of the point that iTunes becomes unusable.

So far, no problems in either XP or OS X for me
I think much of the debates about peak oil revolve around this "finite" resource concept. The reality of peak oil isn't about running out of oil, there really is lot's and lot's of oil and we continue to find more all of the time, it's about the cost of that oil and getting it into a usable form. When demand exceeds supply, costs go up and as the cheap and easy oil fields deplete then you have to start using the small and more exotic sources of oil at a greater cost. The cost at the demand side goes up and at some point it just becomes nonviable. Fundamentally, there will still be oil though. It seems a lot of folks get bent around the "finite" aspect, it's only finite to make the math easier.

We already saw proof of this, $4+ US gasoline prices last summer resulted in a reduction in demand. There is some cost point where it just becomes too expensive to use. We also saw that a relatively small number of speculators and the limited oil reserves on hand make it possible for the demand side prices to spike in fairly short amounts of time which makes it nearly impossible to predict when "peak oil" will happen for good. There are just too many variables, not the least of which is the continual increases in extraction technology. Oil does get more expensive though and at some point it will be "too expensive" and that's peak oil.
Wow.I am never playing cards with that robot.
Trade policies: The traditional way developing countries industrialize is by picking something they import from other countries and learning to make it themselves. This requires a period of huge government subsidies and economic intervention to get that industry started. (Read _Bad Samaritans_ for numerous examples, including the story of how the US and Britain developed this way.) US-led global institutions like the WTO, IMF, and World Bank push countries to not intervene in their economy and prohibit subsidizing local industries as a violation of "free trade".

Domestically, the same sort of "structural adjustment" policies require countries to dismantle social safety nets and privatize government and institute "austerity" measures which have disastrous effects on human capital.
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"NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" is the only current U.S. news show I can think of that is something like that. Charlie Rose goes even more in depth, spending a half hour or more with a single guest, with the guest doing the lion's share of the talking.

Tellingly, both of these shows are on PBS (the public TV network).
As a business philosophy, I've always found this difficult to explain to people. One could do profit maximization, but often at the expense of something else less measurable, such as customer loyalty.
A) Your argument that the Holocaust might not have happened could be applied to any historic event. Moon landings included. Saying it didn't happen because you've figured out a way that it could have been faked is pointless, since it amounts to an unfalsifiable negative.

B) Occam's razor applies. Conspiracy to fake the Holocoust is invariably more complex than it would have been for an openly racist & facist regime to have done it.

C) You would need an alternative explanation for 6 million missing persons, 2 million refugees and all those abandoned swiss bank accounts. Again Occam's razor.

Vaccination is a more about what a person believes, and the individual circumstances (like primi's, genetic history, and living environment)
>What has Conde Nast done?
Lost a lot of money trying to sell ads in glossy magazines.
they have launched, I have been using spotify every day for a year now.

"your music collection online" - well, thats 90% of the reason spotify is so good, your music collection is all the music they have, which is a lot.

and streamed to flash? I have a hooky wireless connection, I can barely watch youtube without stuttering, but I can play spotify all day without a skip, its actually faster starting a track than itunes is.

as for sharing with friends, problem solved, collaborative playlists, and the fact you can play any music, completely solves this problem.

it hasnt launched in the us yet, its working on it, thats no reason to talk about how much cooler X is when you dont know what Y even is, I could complain about how hulu hasnt launched yet and how much it sucks, but I wont :)
Apple would be fine, just as a web hosting company is fine if someone puts illegal content up. They'd have to make it clear that they are not the content producer and respond quickly when a legal complaint is received but it's not as if this is uncharted legal territory.
Can anyone else think of a site with very simple text content. No social net beyond a login, no popup games for friends?

Perhaps one that lists news stories for hackers?
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The big newspapers haven't changed much. I read the New York Times, and the Metro (free local NYC paper) everyday during my commute.

TV is hopeless, and most internet news is watered down. CNN.com is perhaps the fastest declining of all news outlets, the amount of entertainment stories right now is unbelievable.
Also, I don't know how many "childred" I have or how I can format a number like "1,000,000" without using symbols. ;)
Evaluating a big controversial issue is hard for reasons analogous to the "curse of dimensionality" when numerically computing multidimensional integrals: a grid with step 1/k in N-dimensional space has ~k^N points, way too many to sample them all. People solve this problem in practice by the Monte Carlo method: sampling points at random and averaging their values converges to the true integral much faster. So if some major topic has two opposite factions, pick a random tiny factual detail where they disagree, and honestly work out for yourself which side is right about it. Repeat several times to get a big picture with pretty good statistical assurance.

Some examples:

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

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

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp
That's my point: grad students are poor but eat well. There is no reason the poor can't afford the same diet as poor grad students.
How is this emotionalism? I'm writing about people who are trying to take a rationalist, cold-hearted look at death and do something about it.
This summer has felt like the summer before an election year.

Nonsense. The last thing any politician wants to do in an election cycle is to talk about policy.
That's really cool.

I find that I can get by with a Euro plug pretty much anywhere except the USA. Southeast Asia, Oz, and other places that standardize on US (or AUS) plugs often also accept the round-pinned EU plug.

Here in the UK, I just keep a teaspoon in my laptop bag for cramming into the ground slot. Thus, opening the other two holes wide enough to jam the EU plug in.

AC adapters on laptops already know how to handle any voltage/frequency combo in the world. It's just a matter of of physically cramming the metal bits into the socket.
The programme as shown is here (with this speech in its original context about 1'30'' in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm4GiyyVKQQ
Yes, it was very deliberate thinking. Something I don't always do, but I'm sure everyone has done, like when you misplace your car keys.

I'm not buying that his winnings were because of the techniques he used. He is a PHD in an extremely hard discipline. Hes obviously got a brain for information retention and retrieval.

It was a good read, and I'm glad you submitted it. I didn't mean for my comment to imply otherwise.
It seems like you are mixing up revisionism with coming to a conclusion about a debatable topic. The holocaust and global warming are not differences of scale - they are differences of kind.

If you question whether the holocaust occurred, you should also be questioning any other events which you didn't personally observe. And maybe even ones which did happen to you. So unless this kind of philosophical debate is what you are wrestling with, including the holocaust on your list muddies the question you are asking.
I've fired my copy editor and fixed the mistakes ;)

Thanks!
"I'm just saying that as purely technical solutions go, this one is pretty damn air-tight."

Such is the unfortunate myopia of relying on biologists for economic analyses. The solution for actual resource shortages is trade. As for the farmland issue, it's technically feasible to build a couple skyscrapers with hydroponics with a small footprint that would satisfy those requirements though we're also not running out of farmland or ability to grow food - and our ability to be increasingly productive with existing farmland increases.

Consider for example China - where those like Paul Erlich had predicted massive famines. After implementing property rights, China moved from becoming a massive importer of food to being a massive exporter - ie generating large surpluses. And there remains vast tracts of potential farmland that is underused as you move inland.

You assume war and anarchy break out wherever population greatly exceeds resources but this is a false assumption. People create their own resources and develop new ones which is why the long term trend for nearly all if not all commodities is negative sloping (very much counter intuitive since supply and demand should suggest that with greater numbers of people and fixed resources prices should rise - but the reality is that resources aren't fixed because of substitutes). I note further a number of Asian countries where demand greatly exceeds demand - HK and Singapore being two. HK was pretty much a barren rock before the British got there.

As for the term sterilization - I don't consider it scary so much as repugnant. It's proposed for societies other than one's own or or one's own social class. It is inherently oppressive as it is using your power to enforce your own value choices. Sure, I suppose one could consider it to be a technically feasible insomuch as slaughter or genocide might be, but it is as much morally repugnant as it is unnecessary.
I don't think Jeff's right. Nobody has ever told me how smarmy I am.
I think that's more of a US news thing. I still remember getting my first broken tiny TV in the US, which only got one channel. I had been out of the news loop for a few weeks at the time, literally just a few weeks of the plane. So I park myself in front of the TV to get some news.

First the local news, OK they do call it local so I'm not too surprised there's no world news, they do keep adverting this "nightly news" that's coming up. OK the nightly news... hmmm... doesn't seem like news more like infotainment, aaand it' over. I still have no idea what happened in the world today. But hey adds for another news block at 10pm, I guess I'll stay up for that. Oh but it's local again and I get a "world news minute".

Bizarrely not only do I have no idea what happened in the world today, but I didn't even hear much about US issues, certainly almost nothing about US foreign policy. Shockingly I got A LOT more information on the news behind the iron curtain when it was still up!

So yeah, there's no such thing as TV news in the US. But other places in the world have news. The Irish Times is a good paper for people who can only read English.
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Someone ought to get some wooden stakes and silver bullets.

It's really been enough.
A meal at McDonald's winds up costing, what, six or seven bucks? That's quite a lot by home-cooking standards. You can easily put together a nutritious meal at home for that kind of money (grilled chicken + rice + fresh vegetables, frinstance). Don't get me started on the alleged nutritional benefits of so-called "organic" vegetables over the cheap-ass vegetables you can buy at my local ghetto Safeway.

Poor people are fat for the same reason they're poor: they have a lack of self-control and are not very good at making decisions.

Or if that sounds cruel, an alternative formulation: some people lack self-control and aren't very good at making decisions, and they tend to wind up being both fat and poor.
The quote comes from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, which is a British TV show made by the BBC for BBC4.
Michael Shermer, who has a Ph.D. degree in history, does a good job of reviewing historical evidence for the Holocaust, and responding to claims of deniers, in his book Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

http://www.amazon.com/People-Believe-Weird-Things-Pseudoscie...

which is well worth a read.

You must be a good bit younger than I am if you don't personally know Holocaust survivors, or at least much more socially isolated from Jewish people of European heritage than I am.
How do I account for running two businesses in two different industries?
People tend to relate their whereabouts to people they know IRL more often than those they communicate with online. If you don't know where someone is, you ask their friend, their parents, their wife, co-workers, etc as the amount of socially-relevant information (such as location) will be much greater and with a larger history of previous knowledge in those person IRL than those met online. After all, why does Markus in Timbuktu need to know you vacation in the hamptons every 6 months when you've got your Crackberry on you for the duration? Markus' co-workers, family members, and friends will be much more aware of such information.

And sometimes people need a break from the internet.
Whenever there are rational proponents on both sides of a controversial issue I tend to view the "official" position with at least some degree of suspicion, especially when there are politics involved (e.g. global warming, vaccinations).
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The feature requests thread is as dead as can be, password recovery is a basic feature that every serious website should have.

To have to hunt around in deleted files is no substitute for this.
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14k. OSX. MacBook. No problems.
I propose spending $2 billion/5 years to encourage better government. At the end of a 5 year period, we use some objective criteria to determine the best and worst African leader.

The best gets a prize of $1 billion for his own personal enjoyment. The worst gets a prize of $1 billion for the personal enjoyment of whoever brings us his head.
You only get to add OS X if you can make a case for Linux or Windows being more usable.
classy!.
First sco comes back to life, now thepiratebay is back up
I've never had a cold bad enough to risk a day in jail over.
To bring investment can be covered with a success fee when the deal is inked, it does not warrant a 50% stake pre-money in the company.
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It's interesting that they chose to write an app for Symbian. I wonder if other mobile OSes are to follow? Google already has a few things that run on Symbian, maps, search, etc. and a web page compressor that runs anywhere...
PHP, welcome to the early 80s. Who knows, soon you might have real datatypes!

Does the Zend engine do TCO? When I search, Google thinks I mean "Total Cost of Ownership". All I can find is http://devzone.zend.com/article/1235.
There is a high quality cheap kit with a telescope just like this available: https://www.galileoscope.org/gs/
Hacker News is getting along fine without password recovery, and it's a pretty serious website. It's good to question your assumptions.

This came up before, and my understanding is, people just contact Graham and he resets people's passwords.
Jim Lehrer scares me. He takes that bizarre US cultural tradition of neutrality at all costs to an extreme. It doesn't matter how much one side spins and how true the other is. Lehrer must be found in the exact middle betwen the sides, and there he has those cold eyes.

I am not kidding, it's scary watching someone be that devoted to this inane idea of journalistic neutrality. The objective truth is absolutely disregarded. Middle of of the road, no matter where the middle happens to fall.
I prefer the daily show.
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It would be nice to be able to look at it rather than just perusing the very well built website...

This whole idea of rolling it out through telcos is horrible. Just make the damn thing available for download. It can't be that hard...
They pretty much ignore the simple tenant of web design:

make it dead simple for new users

and powerful enough for the power-users*

It's sad, but it's the best place for apartments in nyc.. and the listings are incredibly polluted: apartments listed in the wrong neighborhoods, without a location, lies about nearness to subways ("steps from the subway!" - but when you look up the intersection they list [if they list it], it's a 10 minute bus-ride away from the nearest train).. flagging doesn't seem to help any, either - they just repost the same ad, over and over again...

*In Craigslist terms, this of course is the peruser, not the poster.
I hope you share the results of this survey. I'd be very interested in knowing how it all shakes out.
You could assume PG would be too busy to respond to a password reset, much like you could assume a password reset function is a basic necessity of a web site. However, I personally, have proven at-least one of these assumptions wrong.
There is watwet.com (a twitter clone) which apparently has more users in this region than twitter. Then as mahmud mentioned, souq.com and cashu both from maktoob group (not part of this yahoo acquisition).
As I said I am quite new here and quite out of personal touch in the tech scene here, so I am myself looking out for people to connect with. You can follow <a href="http://www.arabcrunch.com>arabcrunch.com</a>; for more startups from this region. This deal is also heavily covered there.
Also check http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...
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The thing is, people aren't pissed off. People made Craigslist a huge success. This article is like these "I've been doing LAMP for 2 years now. So, here's what Google should do.." blog posts, except that Wired doesn't have the excuse of being young and naive.
I have one of the iHiFi's

I dunno, it's a pretty good speaker and it's nice that it's good for plugging into a computer, sticking the iPod in, and bringing outside.

The biggest problem with the damn thing is that the iPhone has always been ridiculously flaky with it, and I don't mean the cellular noise.
But we're not talking about stock: we're talking about whether to take a job or not. When you invest your time in a small company, you're making the same decisions as you were the day before Series A; does the product work? Can the team I'm joining deliver? Is there a market?

VCs have more experience, so, sure, their judgement is worth considering, but I'd want to trust my own intuition too...
Definitions certainly get muddled. Revisionism, skepticism, and denialism. You have to be really careful about labels, but we should all agree that skepticism (esp. of the scientific variety) is good but when it becomes denialism, we've left the rational world.

I find these topics fascinating. In fact, I think everyone should dig into one just as a mental exercise. Convince yourself. You will learn a tremendous amount, even from the most bizarre. And not just about science or whatever topic is at hand, but at logic, fallacy, and how people think about and convince themselves of things.

I've dug fairly deep into things like 9/11 conspiracy theories, creationism, moon hoaxes, tax protesters, and other assorted "alternative" theories (like homeopathy). I am 100% convinced they are all nonsense, but I encourage anyone to dig in. You'd be simply amazed how much you can and will learn.
If you're looking for technical anything, Dubai Internet City is a joke. It's all sales/PR people.
Yes if the twittering masses just left the elite alone they will surely take care of us since we cannot take care of ourselves.
Well, Yahoo doesn't have PayDirect any more, they don't do search tech internally any more, and they don't do MMO game development internally either. It would be really bizarre for them to buy stuff - even if it's high growing - that they don't do in their US/EU regions.
That's a good point - I was assuming that you'd get under-market salary with extra compensation as equity. If you're just getting fair market salary then the company with more money in the bank's always going to look more attractive, all else being equal.
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Documentary footage like "Schindler's Liste"? ;-)

I have not seen any of the footage. Where can I see it? I have seen movies of concentration camps when the American soldiers first set foot in them. But I don't know enough to be sure that it wasn't diseases that killed a lot of people and led to the starved looks, for example. Also, how did anybody survive at all? It seems difficult also to judge pictures from war times from our modern perspective. (corpses were probably a common sight - not so much today).

Not that I want to deny the HC, it is just that I don't take things at face value. Luckily the HC issue is not relevant enough to me to get too involved. It is sufficient to me to know that a lot of people died, and I know that humans can be very evil. Nitpicking on the details is also likely just something the revisionists start.
I'd also love to see:

- Search functionality

- Bookmarking of favorite stories to your user account