skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there something different about how DB is built?

This strikes me as being akin to saying "Gallup surveyed all people in Patrick's kitchen last night and estimates Obama's approval rating as 0%. Talking Head, this number is clearly in error. What do you think is different about Obama which makes it so difficult to poll about him? Is it that he is black?"

No, its that biased samples bork results. (I'm using the statistical, not pejorative, usage of the word "biased".) There are a million things that could be happening here: a userbase primarily outside of the cooperating ISPs coverage areas, a younger userbase who disproportionately do not install toolbars, etc, etc.
Good documentation includes examples. That's why `man` pages have an EXAMPLES section. The point you seem to be making about documentation organization being driven practically instead of horn-tooting, I completely agree with.
Here is how I would break up Microsoft:

- Office: all productivity software, including Exchange and SQL Server
- Microsoft: operating systems and platforms - server, client, mobile,
Xbox, developer programs
- MSN: all internet properties + Internet Explorer, along with all
home/etc apps

... Can't think of what else there is in the Microsoft portfolio; I am sure I have left out a ton of their product offerings, but there's a few companies in the split-up I'd like to see happen. I think there'd be a ton of innovation that such a move could unlock.
I agree with this 100%, and would also add that (while a workout will typically do it on its own) you should fix your posture immediately.

One of the major things I notice when my wrists start getting irritated is that if I sit up straighter it helps. There are nerves running from thumbs to mid-back, and posture affects them immensely. Simply sitting correctly may (or may not, depending on how bad you habitually sit) be easier than exercise and provide more immediate remedy.

Still, exercise. Definitely.
Apple's Aqua window manager supports morphing windows using a warp grid, although the API isn't public. The "Genie" effect (when minimizing to the Dock) is accomplished by distorting the warp grid.

(Just in case someone doesn't know this: most of the UI animations on Mac OS X can be viewed in slow motion by simply holding down Shift. This works for all the Dock animations -- minimizing, stack popups, etc. -- and seems to work in many Core Animation situations as well.)
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It's an interesting idea, but I can think of three other possible explanations for the individuals who rise to the top being the least adept at research:

1) The individuals who rise to the top may be the most socially/politically able - developing these social/political skills might be time consuming, thus reducing the amount of time a particular individual has to perform research.

2) Rising to the top might saddle individuals with so many new responsibilities that they do not have the time to perform quality research.

3) People may resent others in their field who are doing better research and align against them, not because they have more opportunities elsewhere but because they resent their ability.
Imagine driving a car and every 10 seconds somebody covered your eyes for 2 seconds. Each time the road reappeared, you would have to totally reassess the situation before you felt confident again. The anxiety would be overwhelming.

Flashing gui's and full screen page reloads are the same thing. Even if nothing's really changing the user thinks it did. Things should change in proportion to how big a deal they are, and they should change in a way that relates the departure point to the destination.

Apple has been fantastic with transitions. My favorite is scrolling through photos on the iPhone. Qt is also redesigning their entire GUI engine to support transitions. Right now GUI toolkits focus on defined states. I imagine we are moving toward having defined transitions as well.
Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch ? 
As developers we shouldn’t get into pointless discussions of which markup is the best.
Sorry if my point was so unclear. I agree completely that examples are an integral part of documentation. But it sometimes seems that this point is lost on the programmers and tech writers who should be collaborating to produce the documentation (or perhaps management is to blame for treating these roles too separately).

The result is often documentation that's too verbose, too rigidly structured according to the implementation's hierarchies and doesn't match the thought processes and expectations of the target users.
Libraries are extremely important and the major resistance for me to learn more interesting languages (Eg, I wanted to start using a Lisp, but found their lack of extensive, well documented libraries to be a hindrance (I have since started using Clojure, which doesn't have this issue); also wanted to start using Factor for real projects and I needed libraries which it doesn't yet have and I don't have time to contribute..)

But I don't find Java to be as good as the article makes it out to be. The library, IMHO, is a mess and the javadoc documentation, while great most of the time, sometimes just doesn't explain what you need (like when I had to learn JAIN from the Javadoc alone...), personally, I find Pythons library just as extensive and better organised and designed. Seems that documentation is a matter of taste though - I really like Pythons docs. I find them clear, to the point and intuitive, but I've also heard people complain about them. I definitely do agree that libraries with good documentation are important.
You wouldn't have the XBox and gaming-related properties in a separate business?

Maybe there's scope for 'Entertainment', that includes MSN and the gaming properties.
Also how do you really make much money at it?

Seems like something facebook/twit could easily add as a simple feature.
You need to switch doctors to someone who takes your problem seriously. And you need to start to take it seriously yourself. Don't do anything until you have a proper diagnosis, chances are you'll just make it worse.
MSN as a separate entity probably couldn't survive. I cant see that it has the solid revenue stream / secure market that the other 2 portions have.

Arguably even the Office segment would struggle too (possibly depends how well online office does).
Phrases you can touch-type using just your left hand
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Right, and I was similarly unclear. I think that examples should be interwoven with the documentation, and I think that your insights into the systematic reasons for this are spot-on.
I don't think real estate is that safe and assured of an it'll make you rich. The Irish recession is caused primarily because the economy was held up by the real estate business. Now there are too many houses and nobody willing to buy any. As a result, the value of real estate has dropped and people with your money making plan have found themselves losing money instead.
Sector is also a member of the Open Cloud Consortium:

http://opencloudconsortium.org/software.html
"What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?"

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brecht
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He's the last of many of a long tradition of mathematicians that thought their mathematical work to be the solution to everything. A bit grandiose in his claims.
I've been using wolfram alpha with this command a bit from work:

what is my ip address

It works!
I was surprised to find that the lack of static types in python made the documentation less clear for me. I had to read through the documentation to get a grasp of what the formal parameters meant (e.g. were they strings, or more complex data structures), and with several parameters, I kept forgetting which was which. I think there are conventions that experienced python programmers would pick up (e.g. in the naming of parameters). but I didn't know them. Sort of, informal static typing, no?

In Java, the types of parameters give succinct guidance (though I hadn't appreciated this til I saw python docs). You can follow the hyperlinks to get the definitions.

In Haskell, people claim that its more expressive type-system enables you to quickly search for relevant functions, without knowing their names. (I can't verify this personally).

For me, it's very much an unexpected benefit of static type systems.

PS: I don't think Python users need the reassurance, but the actual library being explained by the docs was a lot simpler and easier to use than the equivalent in Java.
Arrows are correct because they present on my keyboard.
I could wish you to stop being childish but I'd rather wish you die out along with your BSDs.
map Japanese writing system to English

Don't do that. As a polyglot, I recommend you stop transmapping languages; instead, learn each on it's own, mapping it only to your own mental meaning. Hard to explain, but it's better to learn grammar implicitly; remember the exceptions (e.g. irregular verbs) individually and whenever you need to conjugate a new verb, go with your gut feeling and see if it's similar to one of the common rules or one of the exceptions you have learned.

For acquiring vocabulary, learn the meaning of the word (internal mental meaning) and its dictionary description in the new language. You will be using the language itself to describe its vocabulary. That way, if you forget the word, you can rewrite the phrase in your mind and expand the description in-place (e.g. "I need to call my father's brother" is still a correct sentence, even if you forget the word "uncle".)

For newbie language learners, it's the single words that are hard to remember, since they might resemble other words, while descriptive phrases are easy to remember since they're long string sequences and whence easy to match in your head.

P.S. Also, if you have a buddy who speaks English (preferably very little of it) try to troll him by generating sentences and let him correct you. It's not as tiring to him as it might seem at first, most people are amused by bad grammar and you will be a town pub favorite. Absorb all the corrections and try to use them immediately, generating other similar sentences.
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You also could have air motions, electric fields and so on passing through the trajectories of the coins. Unless you account for everything on atomic level, you have all that uncertainty as random noise in you measured outcome. So indeed it is a random variable. Biased, yes, but random.

Actually, even if you can have data at atomic level you still have chaos theory and butterfly effect preventing you from making prediction. Then even some small fluctuation born by the Plank's "uncertainty principle" can grow up in time to big enough error.
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Well, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=887779
Three big myths about MapReduce
The phone costs 199 and 75 a month. It is expensive, but why exaggerate?
Any statistical significance results? Without them I am not buying it.
A quick read of this page and its top link strongly suggest that runtime type inference is an optimization designed to speed up the interpretation of dynamically typed programs. It sounds very useful for JIT compilation (to make appropriate code specializations). It's also likely too complex to be implemented in simple interpreters (like Lua's).

Note that this term isn't very widely used: we are already in second position at your link.

So, unlike ML-style compile-time type inference, runtime type inference is implementation specific. Your earlier statement "Scripting languages have run-time type-inference built in everywhere" is actually ill-typed. However, if you had said "checking" instead of "inference", your sentence would have been correct.

Hence my "Err, by "runtime type inference", you actually mean runtime type checking, right?"
Go to a physio. My girlfriend had exactly the kind of problems you describe - it got to the point where she couldn't physically type (or do anything with her hands) and she had to take six weeks off work. We tried a few and eventually found a fantastic physiotherapist who fixed her over the course of about six months - she can type for 7 hours a day now. This kind of thing CAN be addressed, but you need professional help.
Am I wrong or does the anti-copy-and-paste on his site tell you something about his zeal to spread the word about his exciting discoveries? Bit petty isn't it?
A Feynman quote comes to mind :

'what do you care what other people think?'
why do I have the overpowering feeling that the post was written by the author of the book?
Which trackball? Logitech Marble Mouse works great for me because it puts my hand in a position that most resembles a hand-shake (relative to other mice and trackballs.) I noticed immediate benefits and thought "Hey trackballs are great!" but then I started using a Mac at work and the scrolling there is not so great so I bought a Kensington Expert Mouse for the fancy scroll ring. Just awful. Wrists flat on the desk, hands bent up toward the ceiling. Worse than a mouse. Not all trackballs are great.
what about prototyping smaller pieces? - its a good way to clarify your thinking, try out the tech, and come up with new ideas.
I had the problem of worrying about low-level nuts and bolts for a while too; I guess it must have been the jarring difference in expressiveness between C++ and Lisp that made me stop worrying in the end. I don't think you can realistically wean yourself from C++'s mind pollution gradually - you have to go cold turkey and go with a high level language, dynamic typing, garbage collection, not especially object oriented, etc. Do a couple of smaller projects with a language like that and you'll probably find that you don't really want that "better C++" of yours after all.
Well, there's a fair few authors to that book, from the looks of its web page, and none of them is http://twitter.com/mmilan , who's the author of the article.

The book looks good, btw. I think I'm going to get a copy, if only to get a well designed business book with neat diagrams.

PS: I did order a copy.
With PHP / lamp stack utf8 is reasonably well supported.

hmm maybe 'supported' is misleading - its a melange of hacks, but you can get it done, certainly.
That also depends on the problem you're trying to solve.
In a year or two there might be multiple solutions already and yours will be "yet another" one even if good but commercially not as successful.
It's good to have these calming posts but deep inside there will always be anxiety and a fear of "missing the boat".

Timing your product/service well is one of the many things you have to get right to be successful.

And to get a head start by releasing early won't trigger the sleeping competition to overtake you in the early stages. You'll be the first and you can change along the way...it might be the wrong approach to solve the problem and you can have invaluable feedback along the way.
Good read:

Right now, this is a distinction pretty much without a difference. If you choose an implementation of MapReduce — like pure Hadoop (say in the Cloudera distribution) or Hadoop-Vertica or Aster Data’s SQL/MapReduce – you’re basically picking an entire technology stack. But those stacks are going to do a whole lot of changing and maturing in the near future – and as they do, it’s likely that projects will interact or even combine in all sorts of interesting ways.
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he's not really exaggerating, though. i bought my iphone in the first few days after release, and i did indeed pay 600 bucks for it. it has come down since then, but there are those of us who paid that.

i can't remember the exact details, but the cost for the data plan went up after they introduced 3g support, and dropped the 200 free text messages per month.
MSN needs a fundamental rethink of its business. No better way to encourage that than to force it to take care of its own P&L. It's really no different than Scripps' spinoff of its newspaper business.
I think XBox and gaming-related properties derive a significant amount of value from the underlying operating system and development toolkit; thus, it would make sense to leave them as part of Microsoft. I don't think MSN and XBox are particularly similar, but maybe I'm wrong...
Or better, buy a CD set.
After such a disappointing article like this I feel a bit stupid that I've just ordered his book (four hour work week) two days ago.
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Regarding the POST problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889806
I'd say a picture is worth a thousand words for person perception and impression formation. It takes a dozen tweets to figure out if you like someone, but only a few milliseconds of seeing his or her face. DailyBooth leverages that very well for dedicated community interaction.
Don't be ridiculous. Yes votes are currently 2%, Probably 1% and No 97%. I would say that they are being very open. I would also say that more militant atheists are trying to fix the numbers as this does not reflect official statistics. But hey - got you talking though didn't it? All publicity is good publicity and anything that inspires the debate is good.
i realized , i can type my username just by my left hand !
anybody else's username like mine ?
:-)
Look at the stats again. They are definitely not fixed.
Can you get a version that doesn't have 5 logos from 3 different companies on it?
It won't. Does anything truly think it will? I'm no MS shill, but I haven't heard any "faults" from anyone using Win 7 that will affect the vast majority of users, and that's where their bread and butter is.
I recommend you stop transmapping languages; instead, learn each on it's own, mapping it only to your own mental meaning.

Second that. I spent a year in Japan, and got to the point where I could have fairly comfortable conversations, even in both languages if you were at a party with both native speakers. What really stressed out the mental faculties was having to translate, because you had to do the whole mental re-mapping, which you didn't have to go through for a single-language conversation (or even for two separate conversations in different languages).
Spinning coins tends to introduce considerably more bias than tossing them.
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I just need to look at this picture (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/gallery/handsets/motorola-dro...) to know that it's going to be another flop. Two things I believe someone should tell these companies:

1. Don't save on your casing

2. Girls don't like slide-out keyboards.

The killer android phone will look like the razr and be pretty expensive.
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Internet Explorer is surely a platform? And a web browser is surely an essential part of a modern client operating system?
Sony prototype "13 x 27-cm device packs a stereoscopic, 24-bit color image measuring just 96 × 128 pixels viewable at 360-degrees without special glasses."
More via Google translator of Japanese Sony press:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...
I'd definitely choose 1M in cash over living and owning a home worth 1M. The home is both illiquid and necessary: when you sell your home and cash in on the million, you've still got to find a new place to live. Given that you want to live in the same city (or state, etc.) and that you probably need space for all the stuff you accumulated, your office, and that fabulous kitchen, how much do you think you'll spend for a new home then?

A home is only a solid investment if you're living in it. The real value of a home is in that it gives you something you want and need: a roof over your head in a place you want to live.

But if you're paying a home loan on a second home, it's an investment asset just like any other asset and is just as vulnerable to market fluctuations.
The thing about Android is that eventually, there will probably never be a phone that is as beautiful as whatever iPhone's doing, but that there can models for everyone's tastes. Something like this for the geeks, a slick, slim clamshell like you say, and all kinds of others.
well it kinda looks ugly...
This can also be theoretically proven:

If we view a coin flip as a random variable X that describes the number of revolutions, then X has a value of 0 to infinity.

Before the coin is flipped, lets say H faces up. Then as X marks the number of revolutions, R will describe the result:

X: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ..
R: H T H T H T H ..

As you can see for any value of X, the number of times H was up is always equal or once more then T. This shows a clear bias for the side facing up.
Ask HN: Why do you believe in climate change?
I'm a martian who's just landed on Earth.

I was wondering why a lot of humans believe the Earth is getting warmer.

I would be grateful if you could tell me what evidence you have that global warming is happening and you humans are causing it?

One thing you should know about martians: we only believe in things we can verify for ourselves.

I don't have much time so please can you keep your answers reasonably short (I'm on my way to Venus and have just stopped here to refuel my flying saucer with some CO2 ... I must say, you do seem to have a lot of it!).
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Been using this since 2.7 and it gets better every release. I'm happy they still use Apache 1.3 and it's solid. Been running a chrooted httpd server on OpenBSD for close to 10 years, and it has not been compromised once.
Didn't even know they were bought out until now. Whats the difference?
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I found the book worth the time. His business morals aren't quite what I would strive to emulate, but it's a quick read and there's some interesting stuff in terms of time & money management.
Strictly speaking, no, but if pressed I can type both my username and password with one hand tied behind my back.
He doesn't say the participants at seedcamp wanted to get rich. He doesn't name any sources for such a "myth" existing. The way I see it, people value entrepreneurship for a whole bunch of reasons, guaranteed financial success most certainly NOT being amonst those.
He wants to write an article on his perceptions, fine. He just doesn't base it in reality, though.
Plus you are probably in the process of running out of money and how long you get to tackle the problem(s) has more to do with cash flow than the state of the world.
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Craps players have long known about controlling the outcome of a dice toss.
That article documents current human scientific opinion on climate change and does not show any evidence.

We martians are not easily persuaded by arguments from authority.
I just couldn't see this being particularly useful for anyone except identity fraudsters and various elements on the underbelly of society. If the ISP has LIED to you about the available speed, then surely this is a matter for legal recourse... not some fluffy web 2.0 (ohhh) db that opens everyones isp up to postcode searches.

Dunno, I may just be naively underestimating the market for such a product or paranoid about my information, but this just seems pointless at best and irresponsible at worst.