skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is easier to abide by simple, though unfair, law than complicated and arguably fair law.
Wasnt there talk of a HN meetup on monday OCT 12 9 am ? at MIT ?
It's supposedly Apple that has rejected Skype and Google Voice. If you read Apple's letter to the FCC their agreement with AT&T is to prevent apps that will abuse the 3G bandwidth from making it into the App store, which is why I assume that Skype has been wifi-only up until now.

I'm just hoping that AT&T wasn't right. It would sure suck if 3G performance (for everyone since bandwidth is shared per cell tower) suffered from loads of people making Skype calls and/or Skype performance also suffered from too many other people trying to make Skype calls.
.. and why should the penalty be imprisonment instead of "hey, we know you probably mean well, here is what it takes to do the right thing: x, y, z."

I think we need a line between criminality and what i'll call "regulation" -- which, if intentionally ignored should become criminal, but otherwise there services should help people be law-abiding.
A July 2009 paper: "Trick or Tweet: How Usable is Twitter for First-Time Users?"
not adhering to handling standards is a different issue than "mixing meat from different parts of the cow and different cows". And if you're going to act like that, then it's poetic justice that a lot of vegans are malnourished.
the answer is the simplest possible answer. this isn't obviously well defined, but it can be made so in at least one way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
Same here. A list is just much easier to read.

You also have some errors in your html ( http://vldtr.com/?key=webdesignerd.com ). Especially the double use of id="header" could lead to some unexpected behaviour at some point. And don't forget to encode & as &amp;
Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming
A better system would be for education and compliance programs instead of imprisonment. It costs about $40k/year to keep someone in prison. Surely it should cost less to teach them how to do things on the up and up (which would be easier if the law was navigable.)
did you really just tell me to "lurk moar noob"?
Well, the bootcamp event starts at 9am - so I think there was some talk about an ~8:45am meetup outside Kresge right before hand, but this is more of an "eat some food, drink some spirits, talk about taking over the world" kind of gathering.
Great post Jason. I was chatting with a colleague about this and he used to work for a small-ish NYC-based mailing list that focused on high-income young professionals.

He mentioned that the metrics advertisers were sold on (subscribers, CTRs, bounce rate, etc) were largely embellished and misrepresented. It seems like these numbers would be easy to fudge and that advertisers would rarely ask for further documentation (even analytic screenshots can be misrepresented). Are people finding this a concern among advertisers?
"Avaya Partner ACS?"

This is what we like at Seliger + Associates (see www.seliger.com ). It's a) not overly expensive and b) incredibly reliable. I went through the phone process this summer and came out with Avaya because a) we'd already used it and b) it's really, really reliable.

At some point I'm going to write a publish a blog post on the subject. Drop me a line at seligerj (at) gmail (dot) com if you'd like a link to it.
I suppose the point of this site is to change this mentality. As it is mentioned in the related Google Blog post, you care about what a car is and most people spend more time using a browser than in their car, so why not care about browsers?
A high price signals high quality, a high time estimate signals either a complex implementation, or an incompetent implementor.

If your manager gets excited about your "go away" time estimate, he's likely hoping you will "go away".
The snarky side of me wants to say they know how bad their own 3G network is... But a voice plan is required to use the iPhone and their minimum plans are expensive enough that they won't be missing much revenue. It will be handy for having a single phone with multiple numbers though (maybe business/personal). Though so is Google Voice...
I'll try and attend (90% chance of making it :P).
That's a perfectly legitimate argument for why a race-preference in dating should not be considered racism. I do not object to it now, nor have I ever.

What I do object to is conflating sex and race when it comes to questions of sex. The previous claim, which I objected to, was that there's no difference between a sex preference in dating and a race preference in dating. That's definitely not true, for the reasons I've outlined twice now.

Personally, I agree with you - a race preference in sexual attraction is not something you really have control over, any more than most other sexual preferences.
Reciprocity vs. the Ben Franklin effect
For non-nvidia cards:

- Open the display properties dialog

- Enable the second screen

- Close the display properties dialog
Or, even simpler, don't buy it. Real people are more than beautiful enough by themselves and don't need to be plastered with gold. Especially not if the only thing that gold does is show that you now no longer have money. Better spend it on something useful.
Torture was never mentioned by anyone other than the anti-meat crowd here.
The second sentence is a straw man. Skimming the text, I see that's much the case throughout. Gladwell, if you look past his charming style, is extremely sloppy. Everybody who has researched IQ has come across the twin studies which amply prove that IQ is not immutable. But the only one ignoring such studies is the actual "fundamentalists" who deny that genetics has anything at all to do with intelligence.

The increase in IQ from nutrition and education is going to experience stark diminishing returns, as has already been seen.

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordD...
It would absolutely be realistic if the legislation were of a sane length. If a bill can't be read and understood within an hour, it's probably too big for anyone to properly understand it at all, and it should be disallowed on principle.
Question: With the Skype-app on the iPhone can you be online on Skype even after you lock the screen or go to another app?

If you want to online on Skype on the iPhone so that people can call or message you even when you are using SMS or doing something else. Is this possible? At least on wifi?
Did Apple ever explain how the GV dialer was more prone to confusion with Apple's offering than the Skype/everyother voip app one?
If the Vonage app doesn't replace the native dialer, then it's certainly possible that it could have been approved while GV hasn't been.

Remember: it's not an objection to VOIP in general. It's an objection to the replacement of core iPhone functionality.

EDIT: Hey everybody. I'm just repeating what Apple said. The GV announcement said nothing about VOIP, it just said "replacement of core functionality." Thanks.
What makes you think they'll ever notice ? Sure, they'll need the url, but for them to have a value judgment attached to it may be a stretch.

And if they do, consider the 4th option, maybe they'll think you are more serious rather than less for using AWS, after all it has the name 'Amazon' in it, which they will most likely recognize as being more solid than yours.
I tried to post this too - I think it's hilarious.. surprised no one else has commented on this :)
These so-called 'smart drugs' are poorly named. They don't actually make you smarter, they just make it easier to focus on doing work.
Nearly everything that's killed is killed by software, not manually. But if you want you can consider me responsible.
Couldn't agree more.

One of the problems I always had with math textbooks was that you had to read them as a narrative rather than using them as a reference to dip in and out of. The reason being that most examples or formulas would use symbols defined earlier in the text without bothering to restate their meaning.

So looking up a simple formula would turn into a multi-hour trawl back through the textbook trying to find definitions of all the symbols they were using.

If only mathematicians - and textbook authors, especially - were taught to use meaningful variable names!

On a related note, if anyone does know of a good math reference (esp. for calculus!) which makes an effort to keep it's formulas self-contained, I'd love to hear about it!
I go a step further and use FF's nifty "Add a Keyword for this Search..." feature (Right click in the Google search box and pick that option).

The keyword that I pick is usually a single letter - G for Google, A for Amazon, I for IMDB, W for wikipedia.

I completely remove the search field from FF's toolbar. To search Google, its Alt (or Apple) + L (focus shifts to search box) type g followed by search terms. Similar for every other keyword I have defined
Well, Verizon just put a huge shot across AT&T's bow today by announcing they would allow Google Voice (and others) on their new Android-based handsets.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/verizon-android-phone...
Hopefully this time, someone will stop this madness.

How can someone patent something so abstract? And embeddable objects (OLE 1.0 anyone?!) have been in existence since 1990. How come it defers if they were embedded through an interpreted or a compiled application? Visual Basic was interpreted anyhow long before JavaScript or ActionScript.
I'm not sure if this is the kind of feedback you want, but I didn't really read that article because the text was fairly small. Laziness on my part yes, but I'm sure I'm not the only one. Sorry for giving you unsolicited typography advice, I just thought you might like to know :)
I don't think we've actually seen any screenshots of how the GV app was supposed to work.
Remember: it's not an objection to VOIP in general. It's an objection to the replacement of core iPhone functionality.

Perhaps I'm just old-fashioned, but I would have thought that the piece of software in the iPhone that makes it usable as a phone would be closer to "core functionality" than the dialer. VOIP is definitely treading on the former, though how it deals with the latter is obviously a question of interface rather than of protocol.
Private Data Cloud: 'Do It Yourself' with Eucalyptus
The article describing an open source Eucalyptus technology - content is focus on processing large data in the Eucalyptus-based Cloud.
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Last I heard [mid-Sept]: Apple said that "Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application and we continue to discuss it with Google." Seems sketchy... [http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10356432-265.html?tag=mnco...]
Not possible without jailbreaking.
Thanks tokenadult. I knew Einstein had views like this (mine are similar, especially with regard to coercive study plans) but I had never seen this quote in particular. It's refreshingly direct -- I did not know Einstein had actually used the word "coercion" for this.
"While jeremymims didn't explicitly espouse a vegan viewpoint, he did mention the "slaughter [of] 10 billion sentient, thinking animals", an emotionally charged choice of words which in my experience is a characterization that only ever comes from a vegan viepoint."

"Emotionally charged," eh? Is it not "slaughter?" Of course it is. Are these slaughtered creatures not "sentient" -- that is, do they not have the ability to experience sensations? Of course they do. Are they not "thinking," even though they use their brains to process sensory inputs? Of course they are. Tell me, when did facts become "emotional" expressions? You should really bother to ask yourself, What exactly do I deny about his statement?, prior to auto-defending whatever thought first comes to mind.

"Serious moral consideration is a whole different story than "don't eat them"."

You definitely win the obliviousness award. "Serious moral consideration" requires that you not arbitrarily dismiss viewpoints simply because you have a bias against the label. All you've stated is that you have an aversion to the word "vegan." You haven't made any other point whatsoever. "Serious moral consideration," indeed.

"But when a cow can push against an electric fence, recoil from getting shocked, and then push on the fence again, there is clearly something missing in that cow brain that accounts for learning in other creatures."

Perhaps the cow is like countless human prisoners throughout history, who have gone insane at the tedium of their prolonged imprisonment. Perhaps the cow has not lost its mental footing, but instead prefers the sensation of something, anything, rather than the tedium of standing in a stall.

"Cows are not intelligent creatures."

Clearly, you've done a great study into the matter. I'm sure you know that cows have personalities and problem-solving abilities. I'm certain that you must know they share every part of the human brain except for the pre-frontal cortex, which allows us to do all sorts of bad things. So, maybe they're not smart enough to enslave, torture, and murder other animals en masse, but hey, that isn't really a strike against them.
One usability detail you might consider:

I like how you follow HN's lead and make read content headlines a lighter gray. But there's no corresponding effect for the screenshot slides. That definitely reduces the usefulness of the read state.
There are quite a few people coming, so you'll likely be wanting to grab seats at 8:45. Probably better to meet up the night before or after the event.
This whole thing is nuts. Please see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=857922

Also, Einstein on exams: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=864539
I didn't mind the layout as much as some people here, but I think that having a list version wouldn't be bad. Would it be possible to allow the user to choose?

As for the idea - great! I already found a few points of interest and that's just from scanning the front page.
Another perspective on pair programming: Hackers vs Engineers
I don't dispute there's a financial crisis but I've always believed this is maybe the most over reported crisis ever. I can't count the number of times I've heard "VC money is drying up." Someone ought to show those people these charts. Again, no doubt there's a financial crisis but this whole "next great depression meme" has been silly from the start.

(For an example of how silly things have gotten look in the comments for "William Blanchard". He not only claims to have heard 60% of New Yorkers are unemployed but he actually believed that number)
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Just switched to a new design a few weeks ago, and this is the first new post, so actually great feedback. Just increase the size or change the font with it as well? thanks sean.
Well a dialer is just a number pad from where you dial numbers, no? Maybe I misunderstand the objection then.
Now this is ridiculous I have changed two accounts in two days, just because for some reason I have pissed of software. It doesnt give any reason, it just cripples my accounts and kills my posts. This is preposterous. At least a reason should be given for such, an I am rather surprised to say, rude and uncivilized behavior.

All the posts that got my accounts killed had one thing in common, I posted something against HN. Cant it even take criticism anymore?
Why would that be poetic justice? Vegans are contributing to a cleaner, healthier, less cruel planet (and by the way, can have perfectly healthy diets without the increased risk of heart disease, cancer, etc., that meat-eaters have). Meat-eaters are doing the opposite -- hence poetic justice in experiencing a health problem after supporting the torture and slaughter of others.

How is "acting like that" -- i.e., standing in opposition to the negative status quo -- in any way equivalent to supporting extreme suffering?
Take a look at trixbox (asterisk) http://www.trixbox.org/downloads , it's easy to install has all the basic functionality you need. You can also setup the IVR to route calls to specific people. I replaced a windows t1 voice system with this for 25 people, 8 were remotely connecting to it over SIP. If you don't feel like managing your own setup go with a hosted service.
My personal reasons why he will resign or be forced out:

He has significantly underperformed compared to the market.

Stephen Sinofsky has shown how valuable he is to the company during the Win7 reorg, and will be elevated to CEO by popular demand.
Very dumb patent to give,
Maybe at the time this was a fairly unique idea, but now it's common place for many many websites.

Hopefully taking action against so many companies will indicate to the courts how broad and obvious this idea they have patented is.
Isn't CSS3 supposed to have an opacity setting (little use considering not every browser supports it now, but, might be something to look forward to?)

EDIT: Correction, not "have", rather "support"
Everybody who has researched IQ has come across the twin studies which amply prove that IQ is not immutable.

Yes, there are a number of lines of evidence that IQ is far from immutable at the individual level, even though environmental influences on IQ are very poorly understood. Because such environmental influences are poorly understood, it is not at all clear that societal increases in IQ can't continue.

I've enjoyed hearing from several well known psychologists about this, including some of the doyens of twin research, as I participate in the journal club in individual differences psychology and behavioral genetics

http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall09/mcguem/psy8935/defau...

at the university where those researchers are based this fall semester. There is always lively discussion on what the data show, and what the data don't show. Thus far, there are no data to show a hard upper limit on how much individual academic achievement might raise with the best interventions, nor any predictable limit on how much secular increases in societal levels of IQ might continue.
I'm a designer/front-end developer and have some free time at the moment. Get in touch if you'd like some help with the visuals. My details are in my profile.
> These days, when talk turns to the supposed genetic differences in the intelligence of certain races, Southern Italians have disappeared from the discussion.

Not been to the guido hood lately?
i wonder if this has anything to do with keeping the iphone exclusivity? verizon today also announced that they will be supporting android devices.
So the media kit #s were fudged (not the selling prices)? Most media kits on the site are out-dated, but you should obviously have an updated one for distribution.

I'm sure people do this. Kind of scummy, but if I were an advertiser I'd want to see something valid. If I were running a list or considering creating a startup like Dailycandy, thrillist, ideal bite,etc. I'd build a great system for advertisers that somehow ensured my numbers were legit. (there's a hint somewhere in this comment).
How would it be "poetic justice" for a vegan, who cares for other living things, to be malnourished? They're just being not evil. Of course, being vegan has all kinds of eprsonal health benefits in addition to its benefits for others. Vegans have significantly lower rates of cancer and heart disease, for example. Maybe you're one of those people who think that being trim is equivalent to being malnourished. It isn't.

On the other hand, one who pays another to torture and slaughter living creatures for his own discretionary meals is indeed making a withdrawal from his/her karmic balance, if you will.
You should check out Readability then: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
very cool! I've stumbled upon the site before in biotech research/news (family business).

Email is easy and convenient. Really great to hear more stories of companies that aren't listed in the post.
I know that IE6 and 7, and even 8, act as roadblocks. I'm dealing with that right now on a new site that I hadn't cross-browser-tested, and am now finding all kinds of headaches ... in IE8.

But what's surprising about Google's site is that it really doesn't seem to be pushing Chrome, or even Firefox.
That might be because we're the only ones here who are willing to call it what it is. Meat-eaters may not want to admit that they are most often supporting unbelievable torture -- a human's worst nightmare, in fact.

Obviously, the issue of torture is implicit in discussions of meat-eating in our time, as the vast majority of meat has been tortured before it's been eaten.
Too bad skype text chat is unreliable.
Right, that's exactly what Ruby EE was written to solve. Would've been nice for that to land in Ruby 1.9, but at least REE exists.
Perhaps, but news of "green shoots" has also been over reported for the last few months. This thing isn't over by a long shot. Great Depression II, though? Not likely. But I suspect we'll have unemployment around 10% for quite some time.
Yup. You can set opacity for elements in all modern browsers. IE6, too.

On some sites, I've used it as a subtle hover state for image links, so they "pop" a little. (Set the default opacity to 92% and have it go to 100% on hover.)
The cited book also shows Einstein's full text in the original German, and a page or two in a photostat of his handwriting. It's great to have a statement like this from the hand of the master.
I would increase the scope a bit to design tips and stuff like that to increase visitor count.
Phones you can use http://www.polycom.com/support/voice/soundpoint_ip/soundpoin...
I'm not sure what is going on but the font renders fine and then freaks and becomes unreadable.
"Incidentally, we're one of the very few media companies (let alone b2b media companies) making money right now."

Not every media company is a dying newspaper, and a lot of them besides yours make money. Unless you have access to the finances of thousands of private companies, you should really think a second before making such statements.
Ouch! 100% correct. I'll think more before I post next time.
less reliable than international SMS?
It would be cool if you could choose the column to use for ordering.

Rather enlightening though... I found myself instantly hitting the comment threads of users with recent comment averages > 10.
That's a perculiarly American problem - everybody else factors tax into the sticker price.

It's only America that seems to add it at the register. I assume it's to take advantage the famously high level of math education among Americans who can easily add 4.5% state and 1.8% city sales tax to a coffee in their head.
well, page-by-page technically
But if you're already taking that memory hit with separate processes, ala mongrel cluster, fork() still provides a number of juicy advantages (which the article explains).
It would be nice if it saved all the things I upvoted. Other than that, this site has been added to my daily (hourly?) routine.
You do realize, of course, that your goal of having only 10 laws would fall in the exact pitfall described by the original poster, which is how vague laws can be.

Once a law is broad and vague, it is subject to interpretation and may become subjective. Which is the original point of this article.

Sorry, no solution found yet :-)
Well, in a way, that is also Linux's strongest advantage, so you win some, you lose some.
The second sentence is a straw man.

Is there some kind of competition I don't know about to mention the words "straw man" in as many threads as possible? It seems to pop up in just about every thread, along with the words "correlation does not equal causation".
Then again, if you're on Linux, you're not really part of the problem, now are you?
Threads are out. You can use processes, or async/events, or both processes and async/events, but definitely not threads. Threads are out.

Can anyone expound on this? Because the author certainly doesn't.
I'm coming in from new york city and would love to grab lunch with anybody who is around after the event. We can probably just grab some food in MIT's cafeteria in the student center. Would that work for you gals/guys?
Preserving or flattening list structure... an exploration of monad/functor laws