skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the very interesting part is the very top of page 4 - where Google claims that Phil Schiller himself informed Google's Senior VP of Engineering and Research of the rejection of the Google Voice app.

This directly contradicts what Apple says in their letter, in which they very flatly state that the app is not rejected.

In addition, Apple seems to question certain functions of the GV app, saying they're not sure how it works and are concerned about various aspects of the app. This is pure speculation on my part, but if the two companies were communicating at such a high level then it seems rather far-fetched that a) Apple would not reveal those concerns to Google and b) that Google would not respond and, if necessary, modify the application to address those concerns.

It's certainly interesting.
How much publicity and what kind? There's 3 comments on the post. Unless you're actually selling things to the hacker/TC crowd, does it have any value? Graffiti is a consumer app, is it not?
Thankfully, we don't have to choose between good programmers and good languages. Organizations that care can have both.
"ML type inferencer in Scala is great when it works (in simple situations) but it is a headache to figure out _why_ it causes problems in the cases when type inference doesn't work as intended."

I've heard this many times. I think learning some formal type theory might help. It worked for me, helping me get my head around Haskell and make sense of type error messages.
Yeah, is kind of cheesy to use an ordinary comment thread. But a new, purpose-built feature request system is one of the many potential new features that, while a good idea in principle, would take significant time and yet have little effect on the quality of the site.
I initially thought, "Contradicts Occam's Razor..." But then I thought more. It also contradicts physics and the path of least resistance.

But doesn't life contradict physics? Why should there be something that wants to take energy from its surroundings? What about entropy? Life contradicts entropy. Why do things want to make order out of a universe that tends toward disorder?

And thinking like that, that life is a contradiction of physical laws, it makes sense that people want to take the least convenient path. People are irrational. They do want to work hard.

So many times, people ask for something and propose a difficult solution and I say, "What about this?" and they come back with all the reasons that that simple solution I proposed isn't going to work. The only valid solution in their mind requires effort on part of an entire organization of people, when the could just setup an auto-reminder for themselves.
Sounds like it was written by somebody who's never walked into an upper-scale clothing store. Once you get too old for Hot Topic, the profanities disappear.
I set my favorite networking guru on to this and he suspects you're talking about RFC 1393 - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1393

Of course, you'll never tell, but just posting it here in case it's interesting to anyone else!
I agree. There is a grey area between what is known, scientifically, to be true, and what is known to be false. Much of animal cognition falls into this grey area, and it will likely remain there for the foreseeable future. Hell, it's an assumption I make that other humans experience the world the same way I do.

My theory, which is based on what I know about neuroscience but is unscientific, is that all animals with a neocortex (that is, all mammals) experience the world much as we do. Bear in mind that our awareness of the world is constructed within the brain, and is therefore only as detailed as our current mental faculties allow (even though you may not realize this).

The flip side of my theory is that those lacking a neocortex (non-mammals vertebrates such as reptiles, fish, insects, etc., as well as invertebrates) do not have a similar experience, which I think is also true.
Worrying. Even if by accident, private or confidential docs could end up listed in Google's search results. There surely will be cases of this happening.

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/aug/google_apps_are_a_ri...

http://www.elasticvapor.com/2009/09/is-privacy-in-cloud-illu...
"Organizations that care can have both"

Exactly. Good Programmers vs Good languages is a false dichotomy.
The shocking thing is this is ghostwriting appearing in academic medical journals.

See http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal... for the PLoS Medicine editorial and http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/ghostwriting.action for an archive of ghostwritten documents made public after being discovered during litigation.
Read The Sovereign Individual published 1997. Don't like your current location? Pick up your capital and move. (In the book, ultimately big government loses as the rich people move away and there's nobody left to rob.)

A dozen years later we've got a prime example. Yep, being rich is definitely better than not being rich.
Well, you hope so anyway. There is always the chance that your pilot is in the process of getting a divorce or losing his/her house, going bankrupt, or something and decides to hell with it all. But your friend is right, either way, the people in the back have no choice but to follow.
Code that makes use of features unfamiliar to the reader appears more complicated. Of course, it may be that Scala is more complicated than Java.

I don't know Scala, but it is my understanding that it provides all of Java's functionality (possibly with different syntax) for the purpose of interoperation, as well as its own features. If that's true, then the language is more complicated than Java, even if the code you actually write is not.
My company just switched to OpenOffice last week. Some people were surprised to see MS Office missing when they came in.
There's also debate on whether Neanderthals are a subspecies of human or a separate species altogether, so there's obviously enough genetic differences to fuel that debate.
That pink is not a masculine color seems peculiar to western culture. I used to wear a rather bright pink for a bit till people started complementing me on how "secure I was in my masculinity". Strangely enough, that made me want to stop wearing it.
If animals were discovered to be nearly as intelligent as humans, would it still be ethical to eat them?

Farmers often talk about how stupid chickens are and they, therefore, have no problems eating them. But yet pigs are smarter than most dogs and we eat lots of pigs (but almost no dogs). Where does the line get drawn?
A search engine for US trademarks
Since the topic is fashion, it's a good opportunity to mention this delightful site:

http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
Unfortunately, many many essays have been written attempting to describe e.g. monads, which are actually a really simple concept, just very abstract.

The evident difficulty the general programming public has had getting to grips with even this topic would make me pessimistic as to the efficacy of your advice.
This conceptual architecture borrows much from DCI. But my take on context driven code makes more sense in my head than a pure DCI would..
I was viewing this only from the political context with valid meaning intellectually honest. Unfortunately, in the political context, people do follow the path of least resistance. Why attack the strong positions when you only have to attack the addle-minded fools? For proof, please visit the Huffington Post or the Drudge Report. They both serve as a barometer of opposing but equal intellectual dishonesty.
You said, "Bear in mind"... I chuckled.

But seriously, I think there is a range of cognitive ability. Some animals and perhaps fish or reptiles, living or dead, or birds even, are smarter than others, this is probably true, or at least appears to be true from observation.

However, the big problem to me is that people think somehow humans are distinct and unique and above aaall other life forms. That consciousness begins and ends in homo sapiens.

But, like you alluded to, even within humans, there is a vast range of conscious capabilities.
The story is a bit misleading. I can't imagine such a requirement to be met in only 10 days for over 330,000 employees.

What is more likely is that one division is being required at this time, and more are to follow. It makes some sense for IBM to have its own office suite from a business perspective. 330,000 licenses to Office surely adds up and its just another cost cutting move for IBM

Edit: They also will most likely not force all client facing employees to switch, as I can foresee compatibility problems.

Edit2: Just checked my machine and I have the full Lotus Symphony suite installed. Don't know when it got there or how, but its there now along with most recent Lotus Notes 8
True, each flash trader is competing for profit, but it seems that the typical mutual fund holder, who invests on time scales longer than 24 hours, is uniformly screwed.

Considering that the typical mutual fund holder represents the vast majority of the public, and that flash trading is only profitable for a handful of people, I would guess it is time for a change.
I am so stupid, I never realized that I am wearing pink because I am "real man". I just thought it looked good on me
That is why I said formal type theory (which is very different from describing monads in the essays for the "general programming public").

Working through Pierce's book "Types And Programming Languages" (aka TAPL) is more what I had in mind. It is very clearly written and not that difficult(I have no formal Computer Science education and had no trouble with the book).

Monads aren't really very difficult when learned from the Type Theory perspective (vs from weird essays comparing them to elephants, space stations and so on).

I was specifically addressing this bit.

" but it is a headache to figure out _why_ it causes problems in the cases when type inference doesn't work as intended"

In my experience, knowing basic type theory helps this "figuring out" process.

'would make me pessimistic as to the efficacy of your advice.'

Fair Enough! I just posted what worked for me. YMMV :-)
Yes. I tend to disagree with members of both the far right and far left, but there are brilliant people at both ends. Whenever I talk about Pat Buchanan around a group of liberals, they go nuts, but I think he speaks well and his arguments are well reasoned and articulate. I actually agree with him a lot of times and I love watching the McLaughlin Group. John always gives Pat the first shot.
The actual feedback given by Microsoft:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2009Aug/0389...

Best part, the first piece of feedback was "It's not clear why these new elements in particular are necessary."

KISS, M$. Well done.
On the concept of control, one thing that has been effective for me in helping me get over my fear of heights it trying not to control my fear. It's sounds strange, but the more I try to control the fear the worse it gets but if I just let it come and don't get caught up in the tug of war of my anxious thoughts and feelings but force myself to carry on regardless of my thoughts or feelings (which I know to be irrational anyway) I find that the fear tends to fade on its own.
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818492
I've worn pink shirts. Not a problem, but I don't think I look good in the color. So I'm not gonna wear pink just to signal I'm a real man if it's not a good color for me, color-wise.
And then you walk into a subway store and pick up a sandwich, the spinach you wanted for good health had E.Coli.
You contract Gastrointestinal infection and then you die.

My dad used to say "At the end of the day we all are alive because of the trust we have for one another".
Whether you know that person or not, we inherently place that trust in others.
Assuming for the sake of argument that in 1986 you'd have expected Microsoft not to be a huge success, a "yes" answer to that question would have been considerably more than 1 bit of new information for you. (And therefore, of course, a "no" answer would have been somewhat less than 1 bit of new information.)

Of course I agree that a bit from PG is not as reliable as a bit from God (making the obviously-necessary assumptions about God). But that's not a problem about bits. :-)
This seems to be common knowledge about pigs. What makes them smart? I've spent a lot of time with pet dogs and maybe an hour with pigs (livestock, not pets) on my Aunt's farm. I saw no evidence that pigs have intelligence or personalities like dogs. What should I have been looking for?
based on a single fossil smuggled out of China and eventually sold to a private collector

I got mine. How 'bout you?
I've been a vegetarian the last 10 years or so....grew up eating meat, and became a vegetarian for ethical, rather than health reasons (although I believe firmly that a vegetarian diet is healthier for people and the planet).

For me, the issue of eating animals doesn't spring from a consideration of their level of intelligence - otherwise, I guess it could be open season on many of us.

I personally grew to feel it is wrong to harm sentient beings.
Where do you get your data from? Why would the colleges want to talk to you?

I'm really curious; I actually really love the idea of the service - anything that does something to reduce the uncertainty around college admissions is all right by me.

(I'm assuming you're at AcceptedEdge; you really should put something in your profile. It's really quite helpful.)
In Google's whitepaper on hard drives a while back, they showed that, basically, SMART is useless.

So, take SMART your data with grains of salt and all that.
I'm not on gmail, so I don't know if this is the same as conversation-style, but Thunderbird has provided the ability to view emails in a threaded view for years. Apparently you can also configure Tbird to maintain this threaded view when sorting by date, subject, from, to, etc.:

http://lifehacker.com/264317/maintain-threaded-view-in-thund...
Tried:

a := TextWindow new: 'a test'.
a moveX:200 Y: 200.

It worked. Nice.

Tried to add a factorial instance method to the Number class:

factorial

"comments"

self = 0 ifTrue: [^ 1].
self > 0 ifTrue: [^ self * (self - 1) factorial].

Then in Workspace:

Transcript show: 10 factorial.

prints: 10 does not understand factorial.

Anyway, it looks promising.
But he'd probably have his choice of seats.
Parallel Computing: Why the Future Is Compositional
Holding ctrl-w should close the tabs very quickly, if Thunderbird has the same shortcuts as Firefox.
How's this play out if one organization (with subsidiaries) has multiple FQDNs? Sharing across those domains makes the doc public?
5000 is just something I made up as an example. What should be done is HD manufacturers should rate their drives up to a certain amount of hours they have tested themselves. I'm not saying the MTBF of drives. But the chances of data integrity along the life of the drive. Like after 5000 hours you will have 99% integrity, 10000 hours is 95% integrity, 20000 hours is 80%, and so on.

They same way tire manufacturers rate their tires for so many miles or kilometers. No logical person waits for a car tire to self destruct before replacement. You note the odometer and make a record of when to change them. So you're not the unfortunate schmuck stuck in snow storm with shredded radials.

Data storage is the antithesis of good maintenance. Instead of proaction its reaction. You buy and install a drive, wait for it to die, then replace it.
The arithmetic of voting: the motivation behind approval voting
Seems like it is primarily scraping content from the USPTO search (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli...) and being monetized by trying to sell their own legal services? Maybe I am missing something.
Google Voice SMS messages pushed to your iPhone with Prowl/Growl Notifications
No, none of those things made Mint popular. The quality of the product did.
Yodlee's current frontend is nothing flashy, but it works extremely well and is very straightforward and stable. Of all the online services I use, Yodlee is among the very best. It saves me many hours of time every week and has dramatically increased my control over my personal finance information. (BTW, it is easy to export your Yodlee data in CSV format for local backup and further use in Excel.)
I tried to download Symphony. Had to go through like 20 screens and then couldn't even download it because I had to sign up to use HTTP rather than their download manager which couldn't get through my proxy. Sigh. Why do companies think adding steps to a user interface flow is a good thing?
Steve Pavlina?

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/polyphasic-sleep-on...

he has a ton of articles on his blog describing his experience
Usability dilemma: New electronic meters devastate business on Clark Street
The Pen May Be Mightier Than The Keyboard
It's about priorities.

pg talks about the priorities for HN in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830035
This is ridiculous. I am starting find it hard to take these guys seriously now that they're going around suing everyone in a seemingly arbitrary manner.
Confusingly, the US system commonly referred as "English units" differs from the traditional English Imperial unit used before metrication in several key ways - the most notable difference being the US units of liquid volume being notably smaller than their Imperial counterparts.
The article is very misleading. I have a family member working at IBM, so let me clarify.

* No new MS Office Licenses unless approved by the managers.

* Symphony will be the default office suite installed on the Laptops and PCs handed out.

I have seen Lotus Suite (123 etc) installed on recently issued hardware (2008). Typically they also have MS Office installed alongside. This will now be replaced by Symphony suite.
I'm no 37signals, but I work closely with the advertising and marketing world. If I were to extend Jason's comments, I'd be shit nervous of making my primary revenue stream based on an ad model. It signals that the product/service I'm making doesn't provide enough value or utility to a single customer (even 1 out of 100) to compel them to give me some money. That's something to avoid, at least in the context of mitigating risk going to market.
The suburban kids in 'ghetto' clothes phenomenon is also a way for those kids to flee the 'safe' boredom of the suburbs, and it can even piss off their parents as a bonus!

It lets them vicariously experience the emotional highs and lows of life in the ghetto (at least as that life is painted by hip-hop lyrics).
Intuit, Mint, and the Power of Simplicity
>> High-status people wear shirts that say FCUK to show how high-status they are? Utter rubbish.

Out of curiosity, how many high-status people do you know? Would you say that Bell's theory is invalid for all age ranges?

I'd reckon there's room to say that both showing-off and being provocative could be reasons for a person (who's by no means average) to wear a fcuk piece of clothing instead of something else.
Knowing About Biases Can Hurt People
Hmm.. People often forget the software is almost trivial compared to some of the worlds problems. What if you took your 50million and used it to help out hungry kids? Wouldn't it be better then trying to have some revolution around accounting software?
It is more a political move than a cost cutting strategy. They could get Office from MS for as low as they wanted, if that were the case.
It's bullshit. Invariably lending money to a friend leads to resentment. You are putting a dollar amount on the friendship. If they don't pay you back, will you still be friends? if yes, then why not just give them the money?
Universal entropy is always increasing but put another way - to reduce local entropy work must be done. Life is local order and demands work, this is true whether we are talking biology or culture.
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, Et Al. v. Morgan Stanley, Moody's, Et. Al.
The name recognition of "Intuit" or "Mint"?

The former stands for a desktop version; the latter is probably known only by a small minority of the total mass-market (it's still a barrier though, I agree)
Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law
Adventures in Probability (Bulgarian lottery)
Symphony is just a shell around Open Office, with integration to IBM tools (such as notes). I don't think is really useful for "normal" people, it is better just getting OO itself. So, the website it targeted to companies, not to individual users.
This is an interesting case of the relationship between abundant and scarce resources. It used to be that transistors were scarce, so using the silicon in order to pack them well was the optimization goal. Nowadays, transistors reached a point of zero cost, but yield and the process nodes to make them are incredibly expensive, therefore, you get "wasted" silicon.

In programming, this is akin to programming in assembly, when no cycle can be spared, versus programming in the highest available language, when the programmer's attention and productivity is scarce.
Haha, I didn't even see that pun. Good eye :)

Let me clarify though: while I don't think humans are much different from the other mammals, I think it's a big stretch to lump us in with fish and reptiles. The key is the neocortex, which is unique to mammals.

(Birds are another story that I don't know much about. I'm tempted to think that through parallel evolution at least some species have developed a similar faculty without a neocortex.)

More important than variations between people are variations within one person over time. I remember cases when, as a child, I didn't understand what was going on around me. Maybe I did at the time, but I realize now that I didn't. I was still conscious and aware of course, but had a much simpler model of the world that I was working with.

I imagine that's what it would be like if you could see what's going on in another mammal's brain -- very similar processes going on, with a simpler model of their environment.
Can't say too much right now, but we solve as many, if not more, problems for colleges as we do for students. If you're applying now -- please tell us what would make the site more helpful and useful! (My email's in my HN profile now.) The great thing about being an early adopter is we listen carefully and there's a good chance your suggestion will be coded up!