skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be a great medium. Rather than having 4-5 apps requesting your location every 10 seconds, you could have Apple request once every 3-5 min, and allow you to designate which software has access to it...

Great call.
That's partially my bad. I copied the title of the article rather than re-naming it. I considered it, but for whatever reason decided against it.
Yes: if none of their users knew about it, that's a marketing failure.
Sure the news is the same, but Jonah Lehrer is probably the better writer.
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I can only guess as to Apple's motivations, but that's probably a liability risk they'd rather not incur. At Loopt we don't have a choice; It's our business.
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Since it got deleted when someone else posted the linkjacked version, I posted this one to fill in the gap. Enjoy.

Note: I feel similarly pretty much every time someone asks me to read something he or she wrote. The common exception is when what I'm asked to read is source code. I think perhaps the feeling of dread that overcomes me when I'm asked to read something in English rather than Ruby or Perl is that, for some reason, I can be more honest without such concern for negative repercussions with programmers writing code. What's up with that?
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My bad. I suppose you could also credibly argue that since it's open source nothing is impossible, and that MySQL is infinitely more extensible than MSSQL.

Also, it seems C/C++ support is deprecated in MSSQL, so it's not a proper solution either. CLR integration is what they're pushing now.
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The person to whom you replied did no such thing. For someone so caught up in correctness, it's surprising you can't be bothered to read user names :)
> right before we ourselves go read the article.

I in fact have not read the article (I refuse to waste my time/give TC a page view) because they represent crap and I want crap to wither and die.

Principals, some people try to live by them.
Time for them to eat their own dog-food?
This is a much more... reasonable explanation than "GitHub offers the largest free storage quota among the big SCM hosters, and we came to the conclusion that we didn’t want to subsidize that quota for non-Ruby developers.".

Which had me honestly scratching my head. Then again, I prefer Mercurial and Python, so to each his own I suppose.
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The author is missing some key knowledge about the industry. Selling analytics data could be a good fit for Twitter, but not for YouTube. Here's why:

1) YouTube's value is their user generated content. If the content goes, the site's value does too.

2) The highest-margin videos for YouTube are the most popular ones. These are often professionally produced and have distribution companies behind them. With UGC, the short tail subsidizes the long tail.

3) Professional video producers/distributors who consistently have popular videos already have sophisticated analytics software, often in house. They get their analytics data periodically and directly from Google, in a fairly raw format. Its way too much data to practically transfer through an API or web interface.

4) These users' financial incentive to produce the content is the revshare agreement they have with Google on the ads which run alongside their content. YouTube's volume currently makes them the best source of revenue for video makers.

So when you talk about selling* analytics data to the users, you're talking about selling a far inferior product for a paltry sum to a partner you already do orders of magnitude more commerce with each month.

Sure, you can argue that there might be regular folks who would be willing to pay for analytics data (that they're already getting free now), but I find that a bit naive. Either way, you don't want to waste your time trying to sell cheap software to small fish, and its definitely not worth $120B/yr.

*I'd be tempted to say extorting
Thanks for this link.

I took ~3 years of Japanese (using Japanese for Busy People I - III) but I'm definitely not as far along as I'd like to be.

This is the best replacement for a ~$300 electronic dictionary on the iPhone I've found so far: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa... (iTunes link). As it's been said, learning to speak vs. learning to read is a whole different story.
This isn't anything new. IBM has been gradually increasing Symphony use for a couple years now. The whole Symphony suite is included as part of the Lotus Notes e-mail and groupware client application.
You can try Lotus Notes/Domino for free and see for yourself.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/notesanddomino/testdriv...
Most of the complaints come from those who have only used older versions (which did have poor usability), or companies where incompetent sysadmins didn't set it up correctly.
Do you mind if I ask which part of Google you worked with? I mean, particular products? Or are you still NDA'd? :S
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I'm not sure what details to go into. Being reminded of something as we're forgetting it pushes that thing into longer term memory. It also internalizes the lesson. This applies to both rote facts and intellectual ideas. If you think of it as fact memorization, then you're missing the real power.

There are a lot of things you need to learn to master a mathematical topic. You need to learn definitions and terminology. You need to learn key theorems. You should be able to apply procedures and derive formulas. At a higher level you need to learn available proof techniques and the key ideas behind important proofs.

Of course learning these things intellectually is not quite sufficient. You need skills as well. However failing to learn these things will keep you from learning the topic. And that is where most students fall down.

This is particularly true in subjects that build on themselves like mathematics. If you missed an important point earlier, you may develop a bigger misconception about a current topic that will make it impossible to learn a future one. Anyone who has tutored students should be aware of this.

As for what to review, students did not get the same questions over and over again. Instead I gave them questions from the same section over and over again. Since I only asked a few questions from the current day's section, there were always plenty of questions left to go back to for future homework sets. As a bonus doing many kinds of questions at the same time makes connections obvious. When a single homework set asks you to solve a set of equations, find a basis for a vector space, and invert a matrix, you see how they tie together.
I'll think about it. I won't get around to it in the near future though, sorry.
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Here is the most commonly accepted coding standard for JavaScript.
http://javascript.crockford.com/code.html
If you're familiar with C++ and Java coding standards you can see the JS one is substantially different.
I have an iPhone. It knows where I am. I would definitely swing by random bar meet-ups if my iPhone told me there was one that matched my interests going down right now, four miles away.

Also, when I run my own event--via evite or whatever--for god's sake, I want to be able to mass-SMS my attendee list with a single click. It's impossible to broadcast last minute changes except via text message or phone call.
I wish people would stop talking about Deep Blue like it's still the state of the art. Rybka can consistently do better than 50/50 against any human player even running on a (reasonably modern/high-powered) commodity PC.
Actually you should be glad that I'm not your teacher. I set a number of goals for that course around learning, and forgot to set any around making the students happy. I met the goals I set but...

I'm sure that if I had stayed in academia I would have sorted out those kinds of issues. However it is clear to me that I'm much happier not being an academic.
I did a quick...google...search.

This has been brought up before (also regarding Memorial Day in the U.S.). Their response in 2008 was:

"Google's special logos tend to be lighthearted in nature, this would be a particularly challenging design. We wouldn't want to create a graphic that could be interpreted as disrespectful in any way."

Take it for what it's worth. Anyway, they have this going on to help commemorate the event this year:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/make-history-with-nat...
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> I doubt many fruits are NOT meant to be eaten by animals.

But plants did not evolve fruits to make animals healthier. Plants evolved fruits so that animals can spread the seeds.
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I'm not about to be offended by a company, Google, over a single event. They did, after all, simply fail to remind us about what we already knew.

I am not saying that major events are not important. But some perspective is required.

Google could not properly recognize the world's disasters even if it was extremely vigilant. Unbelievably brutal things are happening all the time; 2009 alone has enough problems to keep Google home pages decorated, and flags at half mast, every single day. Barring that, you don't have to go too far into history to find more. Here are just two examples:

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

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

At what point do millions of people around the world feel snubbed when Google doesn't recognize their anniversaries?

I personally hope that most people spend at least some time trying to appreciate just what kind of world we live in. Don't feel frustrated because you weren't reminded of what you already knew; instead, be glad of the chance to learn about everything else that's happening. This sort of enlightenment is the first step toward a world with fewer of these atrocities.
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Isn't there another smartphone that lets you use background processing?
For the same reason Google doesn't participate in remembrance of the British subway bombing (edit: or the Holocaust, or the 30 Years War, or the eviction of Armenians from Turkey, or the deploying of atomic bombs against Imperial Japan), at a first guess. Not to mention, what would they do? Change the 'l' to a tower being knocked over? That would end well.
I also swear by JSL, and I'm practically the prototype for somebody who came through it: my Japanese ability is horrifically lopsided in that I speak like a college-educated engineer (important when you are one!) and, when forced to write without a computer, struggle like a not-too-bright 6th grader.

That said, there are vanishingly few times in life when an engineer is required to handwrite anything other than their name and address, but I have to speak to people constantly. When I do, I'm consistently reminded how fortunate I am that I learned contextually appropriate Japanese, a strong foundation in grammar, and proper polite Japanese (something many American Japanese programs just abandon on the excuse "bah, that's hard and you don't really need it" -- which sounds great until we're being introduced to the mayor and you say "Yo gramps where's the crapper?").

That is not an exaggeration, by the way. I spent the next hour apologizing for her. (For students of the language: ジジ、トイレはどこ？ vs. standard Japanese トイレはどこですか？ vs. in consideration of the fact that the mayor vastly outranks both of us すみませんが、お手洗いはどちらにあるかご存知ですか？)
I don't meet many Westerners that think Japanese intonation is easy. :-) It's probably the most critical aspect of sounding natural when stacked up against all other factors and can make or break the tone of the conversation.
Are you sure these weren't just DTMF tones?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency

By 1993, they had closed the loophole that allowed audio signals to direct the phone switching network. With your Commodore 64, you were probably playing DTMF tones, which control touch-tone dialing.

With a blue box, rather than dialing a phone number, Woz was actually changing the way his call was routed. He was controlling the switching network itself, routing his call manually across the globe. With DTMF, you are just dialing a phone number the same way you do with your finger.
How heavy handed will they be? Are you concerned that they'll interfere with your productivity or is this more of a small incremental step?
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FYI, I've pushed up some code. Unfortunately, tornado has no tests, so I'm absolutely certain it's not completely functional, but it works as far as I'm able to test a few things on localhost.

http://github.com/dustin/tornado

I'd love some help, of course. :)
Yes neilk, awesome. Let me also add...

I am not convinced that very many people care about discovering new events in the first place, at least not events that don't have an immediate impact on one's social status. People learn about most events from their friends or their existing communities. This should not seem strange because people become friends with one another (or join communities) through having aligned interests. This solution seems optimized already. I don't think you can beat it, or at least not in a way that creates enough value to justify a standalone "event community". Does it hit home that you, OP, may be essentially trying to create a community around people with the common interest of "We like to attend events"?

Ah, but you say: "Well, the key value will be that people will link to their friends and they will interact around the events that they will attend together. We're covered." Indeed, this is usually listed in the first set of bulleted features people start whiteboarding:

Idea #27: Let's Build an Event Site!
* Aggregate all events from everywhere... except recurring Sunday church services, random unknown people's birthday (who published their private event as public), and dozens of guys who are making up interesting-sounding events just trying to do lead generation for their Quixtar, TEAM, etc get-rich-using-something-similar-to-a-pyramid-scheme-but-we-swear-its-not-a-pyramid-scheme group.
* Let people pick what events they are interested in and add them to their 'list'.
* Let people invite their friends to use this service too and they can link up their profiles as "friends" in the system. (awesome, we're viral!)

...

At this point in the bullet-list, OP, someone needs to state the obvious (either you or your co-founder) and suddenly say, "Well, can't they just use email to invite friends to events?" ... then the both of you can avoid going down this path and focus on problems that people actually have and are willing to pay you to solve.

Ah, and I just have to mention that no one really cares that much about calendars either. It is exceptionally rare that people use them outside of work. And really, if you are employed at a major corp, you can't very likely import your schedule for your wild week at Sturgis into your work calendar. Some people frown on knowing the tacky aspects of your life outside of work.
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I'm a paying GitHub customer and having big projects like Ruby on Rails and Perl hosted there makes me very comfortable. I figure if they can handle the big stuff, they can handle me! Plus, I use as much free software as everyone else and am happy to help out indirectly (by being a paying customer).

I expect prices will rise soon as well. I'm not sure anyone has mentioned this yet, even though it seems inevitable. Still, I think GitHub is fantastic and I'm planning to increase my usage.
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Wow, ouch. That's hilarious.

I share your not-too-bright-6th-grader feelings during the 1% of the time I actually have to write something with my hands. ;-)
"330,000 employees have already switched"? I think they mean 330,000 employees have already had Symphony installed on their machines. While internal teams may eventually switch tools to conform with some corporate standard the external teams will always use whatever is most appropriate for dealing with their customers. Customers may not care if email comes from Lotus Notes but they expect documents to be .doc, .xls, .ppt, .mpp, etc.
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yes neilk made an excellent assessment. people do care about discovering events, it depends on what their situation is. as for social status, foursquare is making good inroads with that. anyone want to be mayor of your local hotspot?
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Realistically, 4000 of them would be cold.
It's ok, but Firebug covers this pretty well already.
I'm a Python guy, and that community's both sinned against and sinning. You have prominent Ruby guys claiming there's no momentum - Youtube, Friendfeed, Dropbox, loads of newspapers - behind the language. But, then, I'm chippy enough to notice...

It's the Perl community who just seem to get it done. Amazon and BBC iPlayer have more traffic than most of us, I bet!
I agree. It's nearly impossible to do some sort of memorial which won't somehow offend someone, making the downside rather large. By contrast, the upside is nearly invisible - only the most moving tribute ever would see any uptick in Google's favorability or search volume.
That's what FireEagle [1] was designed for. All of your devices only send location information to FireEagle, then you register applications with FireEagle to receive your place data. Your location is secured by defining granularity per-application (e.g. application A can only see the city I'm in, but B can see where I am down to meter resolution, while C is blocked at territory level resolution).

[1]: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/
Nice paper and the graphs on page 6 really illustrate the power of their method. But Borland Delphi? Ouch.
Anki is a great spaced repetition tool; despite only using it for 20 minutes each day to remember the Japanese Kanji, it has resulted in me remembering a lot of characters (but English -> Kanji and vice versa).

If you're looking to memorise a lot of data, it's definitely worth a look (runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux).
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I can't speak to the competence of my employer's sysadmins, but Lotus Notes, as an email client and calendaring system, is pure dogshit. I've read justifications of Notes as being some kind of architecture-astronauty groupware application platform, but my company has just about zero useful applications for it, and in the meantime, the fucking thing drags down our email like none other.
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Agree, any evidence I have to make such a statement is truly anecdotal, stemming from a failed attempt at building a product in a similar vein. Therefore, ignore my cynicism and carry on.
"and the iPhone takes no hit to its battery life as it's all running in the cloud."

Um, what does that even mean? Does "cloud" just mean "a network" now?
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I use http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/. But cool site none-the-less.
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That explains the reviews on, for instance, any book authored by Ayn Rand.
Why do I care? Google made their TextBox look like bing.com? 
I dont think I like it... maybe if it was a fixed width font.
This is seriously news? I could write this app in 10 lines of code, or am I missing something important?
I have a few questions:

* How the F does this work?

* Is AT&T involved?

* Is any of this data admissible in a court of law?

* Why would you want to broadcast your location to a list of people constantly 24x7 - outside of some kind of job requirement?
Almost everyone except the iPhone: Android, WinMo, WebOS, Blackberry, Symbian.
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http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf
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Snarky comments: "Lotus Notes is what the web would look like if it were design by committee."

Pithy comments: Notes Mail and Calendar consistently fails at the tasks of notifying you when you have new mail or a scheduled meeting, two essential tasks for mail and calendar software.

The last time I developed for it the back end pretended to be a database, but it is not relational and does not allow arbitrary queries. It also claims to support HTML in email and other documents, but its rendering was bizarre and arbitrary, and its support for CSS was almost non-existent.
"Being an awesome excellent business guy does mean success in a measurable way."

You are committing the logical fallacy of converse accident, essentially saying: "All awesome excellent business guys I have heard of is are successful financially, therefore it is true that all excellent business guys are successful." Survivor bias comes into play here too -- you don't get to hear stories of those with the exact same set of skills and personality as other 'business greats' who went bankrupt.

"Maybe some recognition from peers, but certainly not in monetary terms."

You can measure success in ways other than money. A programmer can count the number of users who have benefitted from using their code. A violinist can count number of standing ovations at concerts. An athlete can count number of medals/trophies. A parent can count number of successful children content with life.

Not everyone defines their success in terms of their net worth.