skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know enough about the culture you are speaking of to have any idea. But I know that's largely how it seems to work here. And, decades later, no matter how hard I work at the social stuff, I routinely run into crapola from other people who are just waiting to pounce on the chance to blame me (or some other bright person) for something going wrong in their life. If I share helpful tips at work, it gets interpreted as me "bragging" rather than trying to help. And I have repeatedly been in educational settings, both related to my job and in college settings, where the instructor was all too willing to hold me up as an "example" in the worst possible way for me personally and to blame me as the reason they couldn't curve the grade more.

In one case, I quietly pulled my professor aside and asked her to not crow about me making 107 on the test while everyone is groaning about their own score as all it does it cause huge social backlash for me. On a later test, she threw out my score as an outlier when curving the grade. When the entire class pointed (accusingly) to me as obviously the person who got the 94 that she geared the test to, she and I were both able to say honestly "nope". In another instance (different class, different instructor), I was able to point out that two of the questions on the test either had never been covered in class or were unanswerable because of the way they were structured.

Yet in both cases, the entire class was quick to be angry with or blaming towards me rather than the professor for how the grading system worked. Why? Because they have been told that since they were five years old: 'Don't blame me. I would love to curve the grade more but I can't because of Mr./Ms. Smartypants over there." So I think there are huge inherent problems in making students responsible for the outcomes of other students in the class while adults not only shirk their own responsibilities but scapegoat one of their students.

On the other hand, I find that fostering an environment where everyone's contribution is genuinely valued and all individuals are genuinely treated with respect can help create a vigorous environment of open intellectual exchange that helps raise the bar for all involved, in part by setting aside pecking order, chest-beating and other ills of typical social interactions. Perhaps that is akin to what the classes in Finland are achieving. That is something I know works well for all members of a group, regardless of individual IQ, educational background, etc.
But when are they going to finally release actual new Cinema Displays, sans iMac? The Dell 3008WFP is such an ugly piece of plastic crap, in my opinion.
It's not really a step towards progress, it's administrators trying to make it look like they're making progress without actually having to do anything other than spend money.

My aunt teaches at a school where they accidentally threw away all the power cables for the smart boards before they were even used.
Oh Yea, There's Also A New Apple Remote
The most likely thing is that they'll do that, but that carriers will leave things out.
Because you have to hold it (likely between thumb and ring finger) while you do the gestures. You'd have to use both hands to pull off a four-finger gesture.
Business Accounting

The current quarterly system of reporting finances was (I believe) developed as a result of the Great Depression, to help inform the public of company status.

The recent banking meltdown shows how inadequate this system is.

Something more realtime is needed.
1. They can make the kindle simpler.
2. Consumers aren't actually upset, bloggers just like telling us how upset they are.
Oh wait, this is a SAN. I assume then that the ls is over the network and not done on a Solaris box? If that is the case, then it is very much some sort of non-typical problem. I guess there are also other factors here. Were the SATA drives connected via a network as well? Does the SAN run NFS or something else?

At any rate, it certainly doesn't take minutes to list 6000 files. My example above was actually on 4 million files. Extrapolating from 6000 to 4 million, my listing should have taken 11 hours. It may have with the default utilities, but it took no where near that long when I replaced the utilities with GNU versions.

For reference, this was directly on the Solaris machine which had the ZFS pool attached via SATA.
Partner start-up equity 
I read this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877589) and am looking for advice from the other end.

The company's founder has personally invested $15K and raised $50K for 7.5% equity. He is offering me 15% vested over 3 years. Also offered for me to invest my own money at the 7.5% rate even though we have $50K on call at 5%. We are good friends so take that into consideration.

What do you think and what should I be looking out for?
If you're looking at the St. Louis area, you might also consider Washington University.
Borderless Networks - Yeah, but where's my border?
Is there merit to this statement? I'm not a compsci/math major, but it seems like a big deal if it were true.
So let's go down the rabbit hole farther....

Wang/Li-Chun (US6990453) is assigned to Landmark Digital Services, Inc. Let's see who they are:

"Landmark Digital Services LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), a company long known for visionary technical innovation driven by a genuine passion for music. In 2005, BMI acquired the complete patent portfolio from Britain’s Shazam Entertainment Ltd."

I've always heard mentions that the Shazam technology was originally targeted to root out pirated music on P2P nets. Sounds about right to me now.
Not to come across as a skeptic but let's see how long this one lasts. If true, n^11 is fairly hideous a computational burden.
The people in Ghana who work on the e-waste must think it's a good thing (good meaning better than their alternatives) else they wouldn't be doing it.

We might not like the thought of them working with e-waste but until we provide them with a better alternative it's not right to remove their best opportunity to earn a living.
This can't be true. He references Wikipedia.
arXiv is always fairly suspect; anyone can submit to it without peer review if I understand it correctly.
There's a lot of crap that gets posted to the arXiv. Should always wait for the experts to chime in before taking anything on the arXiv at face value.

That PDF fails all my first-order heuristics for a non-crackpot paper, and same goes for a google search on the author's name (no publications, no webpage, etc).

EDIT: Upvoted to #1? Seriously?
They'll replace it for you without complaint, but as an Apple Service Provider tech I can tell you, don't get your hopes up about the upgrade. Apple supplies its providers with parts for machines well after their warranties are all up; for a part like that, that's had problems all across the board, doubly so.
you know, i tried conservatism once but had to stop because of all the crappy products my political worldview was causing me to buy
What to do when the hockey stick doesn't happen on your timeline?
Ok, but I'm specifically not talking about the semicolons and dots. I'm talking about the semantic issues you brought up, like matching PTR's to A's, or the fact that "You may omit ttl; tinydns-data will use default cache times, carefully selected to work well in normal situations.", or the fact that you can't forget to bump serial numbers in djbdns files.

I'm not needling you, Joe. I just genuinely don't know what --- apart from picking up the delegation for your domain name --- the common DNS errors are that djbdns doesn't address. I'm not saying there aren't any; I'm just asking you to say what they are.

Also, shouldn't you just go ahead and support djbdns? It always seemed to me like Bernstein went way out of his way to make it easy to drive tinydns from other programs. Do you really get more requests for PowerDNS than djbdns?
No offense, but if a company advertises a product as 'can survive a 4ft drop unharmed!' but it completely breaks after I accidentally drop it 2ft... Something is seriously off. It has less to do with fine print and more to do with trust in advertising.
Computational complexity may make accurate derivative pricing impossible
This paper looks like garbage to me. The English is poor and at points entirely incoherent; the author has no prior publications; he admits to having submitted two earlier proofs of P=NP which were found to have errors; and he wastes time on minutiae rather than providing any overall framework for his results.
I agreed with almost everything... which puts me squarely in the libertarian category.
It would be huge news if true. Unfortunately, arXiv is not peer reviewed. Thus it needs to be thoroughly examined before it has any merit. I have no idea if anyone is actually looking at this particular claim.

Non-peer reviewed claims are not particularly uncommon. This page lists many that have yet to be verified or debunked:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP.htm

Sadly, it seems many (most?) mathematicians do not want to even bother looking at claims made by people not already known to be experts in the area.

http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/p-vs-np.html

It is too bad, but I imagine no one will bother verifying or debunking this.

edit: as pointed out above, he references wikipedia. I take that back about it being too bad no one will ever look at this. Not to offend, but citing sources is basic research practice in any area.
> Upvoted to #1? Seriously?

I'll be honest; I upvoted because I was skeptical and wanted to hear the opinion of those on HN who know more about this stuff than I do (it had no comments at the time).
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What does this swing at libertarians have to do with anything else in this thread? No law has been broken, so how would the absence of the rule of law change anything in this case?

Convincing stupid people to make bad deals is immoral but not punishable by law, else most CEO's of banks and phone-companies would be behind bars. And forbidding unequal deals would be the same as forbidding profits.

Also, capitalism without 'a reasonably clear, consistent and fair application of the rule of law', would mean no taxes, no regulations, no law enforcement - just private property and free trade, yes? I too think that there would be a lot of problems with that, especially resolving contract disputes and cases of fraud without resorting to violence.

That said, how and where has that "fact" you present been "painfully and repeatedly demonstrated"?

FTR, I'm not libertarian, but seeing them called fundamentalists with an unsubstantiated argument, in an unrelated thread, annoyed me.
The dell is 24" and 1920x1200 vs the 27" iMac with 2560x1440
1. They already had a chance to, and they didn't go far enough. Amazon's in a position where now they're playing catch-up, big time. That's a bad position for the market leader to be in.

2. Do you even remember these controversies? They sure riled up consumers when they happened, especially the first one.

Amazon fail: http://www.edrants.com/amazonfail-a-call-to-boycott-amazon/

Orwell lawsuit: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351087,00.asp
reminds me of an article my friend wrote:
http://kcomposite.blogspot.com/2009/06/uniquely-american.htm...

(short answer = taxes and banking)
Wow. Good job BN. The thing looks well designed and fairly solid.

-1 on the ATT 3G but you can't have the best of everything.
Wow, I'd love to use a more dynamic language for the iPhone (or at least one with GC).

Here's another article about Lua (with Wax) on the iPhone: http://www.mobileorchard.com/announcing-iphone-wax-native-ui...
I'll get voted down on this for sure, but I can't see the problem.

Nobody is making startups apply Keiretsu, and if Y-Combinator and Jason won't invest in your startup what's wrong with deciding to pay to let Keiretsu consider funding you? Better a startup pays some money and has a least one company consider their application than nobody does.
I did the same.
fairly certain you weren't trying to reply to me?
A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Topic In 10 Seconds
At MIT we still use chalkboards. They seem to work pretty well, even with new curriculum.
Aww. I clicked on "next page" on the kindle in the post hoping to read more and all I got was a lousy jpg.
Last I tried RMagick, it leaked significantly. Definitely not something I want to use in a long-lived process. I remember having to fork to use it, to work around the memory leak. If you don't need the fancier operations, there are lighter image manipulation gems out there that do just the basics, but without leaking. e.g. ImageScience http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html
yep. xcuse me :)
France higher on the list than Russia?
The touchscreen on the bottom and the book sharing are huge advantages. This is the first eBook reader that I actually would consider buying because of those two things.

I'm not sure why no one's done free book sharing. It's the ultimate way to encourage people to tell their friends about the product.

What I'm curious about is the book buying. Based on the video, you have to use that tiny screen at the bottom to buy books. Hope I'm wrong..
The responsive color screen has a lot of potential. If one could have a "Cover Flow" style browsing mode, this would make the Nook a 10X better device for browsing reference material and other kinds of not-purely-linear reading. Others on HN have lamented the lack of "flippability" in other e-readers. This could be used to provide exactly that!

(The other thing: will B&N allow it to happen?)
So, you made all kinds of awesome points that I went thru before i switched to random passwords...

a. (on not having access to your passwords). iPhone with them helps. (yes, i have to unlock that db with my hashing password). But in reality, I prefer that I can't get access to my email/facebook/whatever without having my machine. If i'm at work, I should be working... but it's the same machine anyhow ;)

b. true about stealing my machine. But again, my passwords are locked by my one key control password (which i don't easily remember either... yay for muscle memory ;)). Yes, it's a SPoF.

c. I clarified with Little Snitch. I don't really care that much. Because you're right: if one company screws you over and unveils your passwords, then having a scenario where people could then log into your email or bank means end of identity and a life of credit hell.

I just think that having a predictable password scheme is about the same as having the same password. If it's easy to guess, then you may as well have the same. IMHO, the only way to guarantee against any problems if one of your passwords is exposed is to go random. :)
Papers in Computer Science: summary and discussion of important papers
$0, the webpage is free, the app should be free unless it makes breakfast for me in the morning.
The problem is that it creates a problematic incentive structure.
Funny. :D I linked it so it at least goes somewhere now, just to amuse you.
How much of the product is built? Any customers yet or other proof of the biz model? What value do you bring to the table? How many other founders are there or will there be? How much more funding do you expect?...helps to predict dilution.

The numbers you show don't seem low, but the above helps to shape the discussion more.
Reputation is a lot harder to build then it is to kill.
If Apple came out with an iMac with a 4:3 screen of the same width, I would not mind.
It's ok if you can't see the problem, really.

There are plenty of people that play the lottery, and there are plenty of people that don't. Some see trouble and loss where others see a chance.

So, feel free to approach Keiretsu with your idea now, since they've stopped charging, you really can't lose.

Or do you think that maybe since they did this in the past they might have a little ethical problem somewhere ?

If Jason Calacanis fails with 37 Signals and all he does is keep the VC world on their toes he's got my vote.

It's like banking, if banks started charging you a $500 application fee for a $10000 loan, how would you feel ? What if they charged you the fee anyway even if they declined you ?

Why would they ever grant a loan then, after all there is more profit in getting people to apply endlessly and every now and the at random approve a loan to keep them hopeful.
You mean Keiretsu has an incentive to listen to many applications but to maybe fund few? Startups also have an incentive to only apply to places that they think they have a chance at getting funding from (especially if they have to pay). If Keiretsu don't fund very many startups word will get out and startups will stop applying.
Especially when the other party helps you.
Second page of the article seems to have died. Two ikea links of interest:

IKEA: The Walkthrough -- http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/the_nonexpert_...

Ikea Hacker (furniture hacking) http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/
Then it's strange that you're the one categorizing Apple Inc. and its target audience as "left-wing" here.
In the current economic scenario, I'd recommend CS + MBA
How the Amazon Kindle got its name
They've said it's the best iMac display yet, and I doubt they could claim that the LED backlighting more than makes up for any deficiencies of E-IPS compared to the S-IPS they used to use.
Thats why we have PDF. 1 inch on a PDF is on 1 inch on my screen. And it will be 1 inch on all properly configured readers. And as a bonus point it will still be 1 inch when I print it out.

Yes, techically HTML/CSS should be as scalable when used in a scalable way, but I'm not sure of current web browser situation. If someone has better info please reply.
How many years of failure would it take before you would seriously consider this hypothesis? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolut...

5 years for me.
>I'm not sure why no one's done free book sharing.

Because sharing things you have bought is the same as terrorism or murdering kittens - the ad at the beginning of the DVD told me that

Remember before reading Goldilocks and the three bears to your kid from your ebook you need to buy an extra client access license and a public performance license
"Why would they ever grant a loan then, after all there is more profit in getting people to apply endlessly and every now and the at random approve a loan to keep them hopeful."

Because once people realised that no more loans were being given out they would stop applying to banks that didn't give out loans. The same thing will happen to Keiretsu if they never funded anyone.
resistors. do you know how annoying it is to misread the bands?!
You should link it to another image with a "what'd you think this was, an e-book?" on the screen or some such...

I am amused!
According to http://mashable.com/2009/10/20/nook-official/, wifi only works in B&N stores. If that is the case, it can't compete with Kindle 2 internationally.

Can anyone confirm this?
The premise of capitalism (especially capitalism as moral philosophy) is that if two parties come together & a transaction occurs, both walk away better off. Otherwise the transaction would not occur. Therefore, it cannot be considered immoral.

Protection against corruption/taking advantage is built in. Don't like it? Don't buy it.
Anyone know if it is at least 8 bit now?
Just some pieces of constructive critcism; the flow of information on the homepage is very confusing. I can't quite make out what you want the user to look at first, nor what is the most important information on the page.

Your call to action button is also the same colour as the YouTube caption label.

You also jump from centred to right aligned text a lot. I can see what you're trying to go for, but this doesn't seem to work on this occassion.

Hopefully you take my comments in the right light!
I assume those of us living in the ice covered wasteland to the North will never get this.
That seems to contradict the wording on B&N.

“Browse eBooks, magazines and newspapers on AT&T's 3G Wireless Network or on Wi-Fi. And every Barnes & Noble has free Wi-Fi, so you can connect at lightning fast speeds.”

Sounds like B&N is just marketing their Wi-Fi hotspots as a convenience, but it doesn’t need to be their hotspots; any Wi-Fi connection should do.
The reason they're dropping the fee so quickly is because they don't fund or even listen to many early-stage startups.

I know lots of people who've applied to Keiretsu in Seattle. You have to really know your stuff and have significant traction for them to even consider funding you.
Instead of squeezing netbook features into a cellphone, I think it is prudent to integrate cellphone in netbook.
You shouldn't need to increase font size. If there is 12pt text, it should be 12pt on screen, regardless of the resolution you are running.

Actually if you set larger font to compensate screen resolution, it could wreck the hinting/scaling system in fonts, as the designer assumes that the characters are certain size. The letters are usually differently shaped at different sizes, and with highres screen you actually want those small-size shapes because they are optimized for small sizes.

edit: just to say, yes I fully agree that higher pixel pitch is definitely a good thing. I feel like displays are one of the most slowly advancing part of computers. Yes, they are getting bigger and bigger, but we are stuck on the same <100 PPI pixel pitch for large part of desktop LCD monitor history. At the same time mobile devices are having 300 PPI displays, and even laptops have higher pitched screens than desktops. Its just not fair!
It's the "literature review" that kills.
they're charging for access to their call center basically. I don't really see anything wrong with that.

Rubbish. They are charging people to download Firefox. The reason they can do this is because people don't know it's free. If you approached these people & said, "do you want to buy access to our call center?" They would say no.
I hope I am not being voted up because people think I'm saying nothing morally problematic is going on. I meant to offer support to the grandparent comment.

There is such a thing as an immoral yet free transaction.
That's certainly an interesting take. Would you say the same thing about poor people that are earning their living as a result of war or other things that negatively impact the planet as a whole?
Definitely a great entrant into the market, and I'm hopeful that Amazon will step it up in response. Two things in particular that I'd like to see from Amazon are integrated access to public domain works (perhaps via a deal with Gutenberg or Google), and the ability to lend books to a friend. What's nice is that neither of these would require anything other than a free over-the-air update.
A less technical explanation of why certain kinds of widely used derivative pricing methods are NP-complete: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/intractability-f...
I wonder who will be the first to find an exact match with some academic paper.
Why Women Have Sex
That's kind of like saying we should keep crime high so demand for policemen stays high...
This is really cool, I had tried making something like this a few years ago when I was working in a lab. Mine worked, but I never really got the time to perfect it.
Wider (nonstandard) gamut is not always a good thing if applications are not aware of it. With no color correction, normal srgb images will look oversaturated and cartoonish. Even with proper application support, overly wide gamut isn't that useful because there just isn't a lot of wide gamut material to display on your fancy screen. And therefore you are just wasting precious bits to represent colors that will be rarely used in most desktop usage.

Image editing is one area where there is an actual use for wide gamut, but for all other uses, it creates more trouble than what it is worth.
You don't need Mac OS X's single-application mode
Who "Owns" Documentation?
I absolutely love my 10e a month uncapped ubiquitous 3G internet.
will the video change if the search results change?