skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is presumptuous, and sets a possibly dangerous precedent.
Chill out, bro. You're reading way into this.

As for this tablet thing. Every person whose sources I trust have said the Apple tablet will be announced in early 2010. They've been saying early 2010 since late 2008, so I think I'm assuming that's correct. And I'm not saying it will be better than this glorified web browser, but Apple has a pretty superb track record when it comes to making new and innovative products. So there's hope that it might be really cool, as opposed to this, which is really lame.
Almost totally unrelated:

http://www.rogersconnection.com/

just wanted to strain your wallet a little further =P (and your mind, of course)
Wait, what does the Kindle have to do with anything? I remember journalists loving the Kindle when it came out. There was a slight backlash months after the original sold out, but it's been very positively received by everybody but Hacker News, which still thinks Amazon is Orwellian because let's face it, we're not quite as bright as we think we are.

Are you saying JooJoo is interesting if you don't buy into the completely web-oriented whatever? Because they're not saying It won't sell for this price in your quote. They're just saying, unless your goal is to use the Internet, this isn't what you want.
See point five, here:

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/climate...

He also has the sources and data available, see the links at the bottom.
i use my G1 to read news and articles everywhere ... when awake in the middle of the night, while eating lunch, at a coffee shop, etc. You can't beat it for convenience, I suppose in a few years when my eyesight gets worse I'll need to rethink this.
The pictures of said device look nice, but $500 for a web only tablet seems a bit steep. But then, perhaps there is a market for such a device - for people who only use web apps and want something convenient to surf the web on.

In some ways I think it is a rival to the litl netbook. And of course, with Apple's reputation and all the rumours of an Apple tablet they are going to have to face a market which will include a lot of people who are just going to wait and see what Apple release.

Still its nice to see a new company producing some hardware. Will be interesting to see how they do.
Interesting size; I was talking to guys at a gay dating site, and their worldwide db was around 60 GB also; it could fit in RAM, on the 4XL amazon ec2 instances.
6,310,000 old backlinks, many of which come from highly trusted sources, might have some effect.
It certainly shows that he's got a good sense of perspective re: drawing bodies. And that's the suggestion Paul's making, right?, that Cezanne makes stupid goofy mistakes. The sketch here is just a sketch, but it shows he knows his shit.
If by jizzing all over it you mean writing a review that points out that it's got a great form factor and the touch screen works great but it's very slow, has some odd features, and doesn't do much other than surf, then you're right on.

Did you read the article?

And yes, your description of my sneer as having all the hallmarks of a sneer are right on too.
What the CrunchPad drama means for the Apple Tablet
This is a problem that has been solved many times and is (relatively) inexpensive. It is called a "grid tie" power inverter, commonly used with solar panels.

http://www.affordable-solar.com/grid.tie.htm

http://www.affordable-solar.com/solar.inverters.grid.tied.ht...
Johnny Long is looking for tech training videos
Cheap WPA Wireless Cracking
Wired is writing a kneejerk review. I don't trust their criticisms just as I don't trust their compliments. They simply haven't had the JooJoo for long enough.

If you're only posting to be a cunt, there's no reason to be posting at all. You're allowed to sneer on your cozy little weblog for all your friends to read. Here we're pretending to be gentlemen.
I see your point, but I'm not convinced that the amount of data (raw volume size) and the read speeds of flash lead to the same behavior as shaders + GPU. GPU's are processing an order (or several) of magnitude more data, which makes shaders a useful feature: data and computation locality.

Flash is 10x slower than RAM (in an ideal case), and even then, we haven't had the need to introduce 'shader like' features into RAM - yes, because historically we haven't stored all that much in it, but even with modern 64Gb configurations, same thing...
I don't think he was talking about making it mandatory. Just automatically deducated from the pay check, once you sign up. Either way, not a very well written post...
I wonder if they intentionally put in the translation of "Sik - cool" in the sidebar to emphasise how ridiculous the opening contention of this article is. Or is "cool" no longer slang, daddy-o?
Feel free to email me if you have questions about it :) I feel like we've derailed a bit here. You can reach me at my username at forumwarz.com.
I like that it doesn't; it means that you can generally let go of any debate after a few days.
Well, Nokia's multi-OS strategy can be accused of lacking a coherent message, but I don't see how they can be blamed for lacking commitment to open source.

Within the past two years, Nokia has acquired Symbian and Trolltech (now Nokia's Qt division), freeing the code to these formerly proprietary projects and opening up their development processes to community contributions and scrutiny.

That's an enormous "gift" to open source, at least by the traditional metrics of LOC and market value -- Symbian has something like 40 million lines of C++ code, and Nokia acquired it at a cost of several hundreds of millions of euros. (I'm not saying that these figures are an actual indication of its worth, but the bean counters at Nokia must have been pretty shocked by this plan...)
Hyperlocal Goes Mainstream: CNN teams up with Outside.in
-> Time Travel!!!11111
Indeed, publishing code is good. Getting crits and reviews make you a MUCH better coder. So does making code that other people use. Which can be very different from writing your own code, or writing code that programmers in the same room have to use.

I now prefer launchpad with bzr 2.x series. There's more room on there than those pay sites. It's nicely integrated with ubuntu services (like ppa compile farm etc). Also I can make bazaar projects of my other projects on google code, github, etc.

Plus the launchpad source code has been released. I feel safer not relying on a closed source tool if I don't have to. Also, there is a better chance I can make modifications to it if I want.

I'm only one week into my latest love affair with bzr/launchpad... and so far so good. I hope it doesn't break my heart again.

Google code has svn or hg support, but limits you to a small amount of projects. Whereas the other ones limit you by disk space.

I hated the 1.x series of bazaar, but now it seems to be good quality, and stabalising. There are now stable, and development releases, and the last default format change before the 2.0 release was in 2007.

</preference>
Twoddler, Twitter For Toddlers
Lab mice show brain's role in learning, memory
Why Private Equity Returns Are Misleading
It would be nice if they included PUT's into this equation too. Many large datasets are not one big file, but billions of smaller ones.

I realise it raises the offering out of the bandwidth arena and into actual server capacity to handle the PUT's, but offering free bandwidth in and still charging per PUT action is kinda misleading (and could really ruin someones day if they read it wrong)
The biggest issue for this device is the fact that it is supposed to be used as a web browsing device only - yet it only supports wi-fi. I think that is a huge oversight.

How will one use this anywhere if you can't connect to a 3G network?
Programming?
Ode to a lousy laptop, Windows 7 edition
XBL 2.0 - Declarative, extensible, web language
A standards-based, extensible, declarative web language
I just figured, based on the odd comment here and there by pg, that the comments section of these posts is deliberately user-hostile. shrug so if I happen to remember a news posting with interesting comments (or in which I made a comment), I'll occasionally go see how the conversation is going. Other wise, I just move on with my life.

Just like how the site has the horrible url "news.ycombinator" instead of something sensible like "hackernews.com" ... it's just one of those things...
Their open source strategy just doesn't seem that solid to me. It seems something that is a bit on-again off-again and is not driven by some kind of guiding principle. It's not as if Google gives everything of theirs away, but it's usually pretty evident where they're coming from and their decisions generally make sense to outsiders. Nokia just seems a bit ambivalent about the whole thing, and while they're definitely involved with open source, I don't get as much of a sense of them 'getting it'.

Also, 'getting it' doesn't just mean releasing a bunch of code under a nice license, it means having a sensible strategy that advances the goals of the company. For instance, Apple has a pretty good open source strategy even though they're not particularly generous with code (they basically release what they have to and not much more). It works for them and is consistent, though.
The horror stories are real but the environment has changed to the relative advantage of founders/entrepreneurs.

In the 1980s, founders who approached VCs were more like supplicants who had comparatively little knowledge or sophistication about how to deal with an elite group on whom they utterly depended and whose power in relation to theirs was lopsidedly overwhelming. Due-diligence cycles, for example, could easily extend a year or more as the founders hoped for the best that their much-needed capital would come to them one way or the other.

Today, founders have far more knowledge and sophistication in dealing with VCs and, even more important, a typically broader range of choices. It is much easier today to come up with winning business models that either bypass or defer VC funding in ways that give founders potentially more leverage than they once had. When dealing with VCs today, founders also have a much greater understanding of potential pitfalls and abuses (such as those highlighted in this piece).

It is the same dance as 25 years ago but the average founder no longer is led (more or less) blindly as before. The dynamic has tipped more in the founders' direction, and this change is here to stay. Think of it as a relative empowerment of founders in relation to those of the past.
Adding new breakers is one situation where live working happens quite a lot in a commercial setting.

Power companies use a whole range of live working - the guys in helicopters are a minority, but there's a lot more mundane stuff done live:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-line_working
A classic leveraged 1:n problem. Every VC has many entrepreneurs to worry about and so in conclusion does not give a damn about most, especially if they show early signs of failure. Every entrepreneur depends heavily on his or her VC, so from that perspective, the relationship is naturally a different one...
Tweet while you work, urges Australian report
Well, 3 of those sources for the hockey stick are from the CRU (Mann 1998 and 2003 and Briffa), but I'll take a look at the Amman and Wahl reconstruction.

Thanks.
The 5 reasons to join really turn me off. You may want to do better

- Guides save you time and focus your efforts
- Site Reviews improve your sales
- Resources you need to know about
- Knowledge available nowhere else
- A community you'll be proud to be a part of
thanks cdr ! U need to sigup to read the article.
Google Social Search, True or False Dichotomy
read PDF version instead
Wow that is freaking cool!
Ask HN: Please review my site StockChatBoard.com
I never thought that history of some math software can be that interesting. Good read.
Eh, nothing to see here. Just appears to be another site trying to leverage the hype around the CrunchPad/JooJoo by offering a lot of baseless opinion.
Very nice. Now they just need to add the ability to sort the table by clicking on the column heads (and have that reflected in the charts).
Climategate and a hand-holding analysis of raw-data homogenisation
Display Cross Domain Data with Jquery JSON Callback
The parent comment in itself was vague enough to be interpreted as such. I'd rather have an open discussion about such issues instead of covering them up as though they are not there.

I should also point out that the key word in your comment is might. I can just as easily say that somebody might be justified in being offended by the parent comment.
Eric Schmidt: "If you have something [to hide], maybe you shouldn't be doing it"
I like the one with the "As Seen On" section containing the AIM logo. Technically true, I suppose...
For those of us who didn't know who this is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Baker_%28computer_scienti...
He learned to live like the homeless: tucked away in his van, quietly hoping campus security didn't notice (they probably were generously keeping an eye on him and his van for his own sake). Seems a stretch to romanticize his lifestyle vis-a-vis Thoreau, who lived in the wilds rather than a parking lot. And he's a long way from Thoreau as a writer:

"During rainstorms, I listened to millions of raindrops drum against the roof and watched them wiggle like sperm down my windows."

Caught between the security guards and the sperm, it seems a bit isolating, nearly paranoid.
> Am I wrong for thinking this is lame for being suborbital?

I think you know as well as anyone that this is a crucial step.
Unionen (www.unionen.se): 15.9% improvement on other
Everything you know about U.S. involvement in Iran is wrong
The latest iPod Touch has a video camera but no GPS. The same is true of various other non-phone handheld tablets. (Though landmark recognition might not be useful on those, since apparently it actually uses the GPS and compass as input...)
Want to secure your data? Classify it.
Nice article. It would make sense though, to talk a bit about using existing systems like Lua or Tcl that might meet people's needs better than some one-off system. Explain that it's only a learning exercise.

Also, people might find this interesting: http://www.welton.it/articles/hecl_implementation

Hecl is very simple in some ways, so it's easy to see what's going on.
Performable - 5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization
Well, he could move the van occasionally so that ants didn't set up shop inside!8-)
If you call Reservations it's $35. If you call "Web Services", it's free. I think the site says something to this effect.
So much for "don't be evil".
On Mobile Phone OS Design and GPUs
Some of this speaks to PG's "Writing to Discover" (http://paulgraham.com/discover.html) observations. When he says, "The paintings made between 1430 and 1500 are still unsurpassed" then my impression is that he's just stating his opinion. But because he doesn't bother to preface it with, "Well this is just my opinion, but..." then it sounds like everything that he says is, as you say, "generalizations based on [his] own tastes, but presented as deep insights about the world".

So because all of his statements aren't prefaced with "sometimes it seems to me" or "I wonder if" or "Maybe it's the case that", then it comes across like he's speaking as if everything he says is absolute truth, whereas a lot of it is simply his musings about the world.

I totally understand why this rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Personally I prefer his current writing style, where he doesn't qualify everything he says with, "in my experience" or "among the artists I've known personally" or whatever.

With that being said, I can't comment on your factual corrections about the history of oil painting.
lawyers for Craigslist set out in their cross-examinations Monday to show that it was eBay that had engaged in deceptive acts by hiding its intention to launch a competing classified site, Kijiji, and misusing confidential information it had gleaned through its dealings with Craigslist.

Don't they have to show actual damages? I mean, who uses Kijiji?
Wonderful, I especially love level 16!
I remember journalists loving the Kindle when it came out.

Exactly my point. Throw in the fact that Google is putting all of their effort into relying fully on the web/cloud, I would think that the journalists would love this device too.
Do you know how many Apple engineers and product managers are Indians? Silicon valley is not the place you wanna play the race card. Desi-coders are a fact of life.
The missing discussion point for me is more fundamental - how and when should I break with my RDBMS data modeling habits?

I can't say for sure, but suspect some of the headlong rush into denormalized NoSQL stores is motivated by the ease of the data model. I wonder if once you go down that road, if your "program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of" what you get in a decent RDBMS. (Forgive my hijacking of Greenspun)

That said, I'm usually working in denormalized models anyway (star schemas in data warehouses for handy-dandy slice/dice/drill), so I'm completely open to different ways of approaching data processing and analysis problems.

I actually feel more free with SQL than limited though. What I would really enjoy would be to have the fully expressive power of SQL embedded in a natural feeling way in a higher level language. I'm interested in Q (of KDB) for this reason, have also been baking my brain in prolog to tear down old data model habits, and hacking some in Ruby and Common Lisp for the same reasons.

Of course, I'm probably breaking my career in the process, since I've made a habit of getting paid to work on RDBMS walking the line between hardware/software performance tuning. But because of that, I'm also glad to see new approaches to RDBMS storage and innovation in the whole DB space.
Hermitage CEO Browder: Don't Invest in Russia Today
There's a difference between "don't be evil" and "be good".
Blast from the past. Flipcode used to be my favorite site on the web. Note that this article is more then a decade old.
White House CIO & CTO Launching Open Government Plan live online at 11AM ET
Which is why I doubt somebody at Apple would be giggling, regardless of what they have up their sleeve. Hence my initial comment and follow up question.

To be clear: the parent comment is vague enough to be interpreted as offensive.
How Hubble Could Spot Quantum Foam
privacy and the argument against nothing to hide on slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/10/2054219
SpyPhone iPhone App Can Harvest Personal Data
Thanks for the confession... the scary part is the magnitude of which google has access to everyones personal data. Thanks to analytics they even can track everything outside of their direct control
cool, so my friends that work at Google don't need to keep the details of their projects secret anymore?
Gtk? Qt?
I think it is a valid concern if someone that says they are looking out for your best interest starts a competing company even if that company is unsuccessful. Board members should be trying to give the best results to the shareholders. If you are competing before you even get to the board, you probably do not have the shareholders of Craigslist in mind.
I am confused. Are you still claiming that the parent comment was motivated by racism?
In my opinion, he should apologize immediately or else resign. Unfortunately the cat already seems to be out of the bag to some extent. I really hope Sergey and Larry do not have the same disdain for privacy that Mr. Schmidt has exhibited.

I was previously on the fence about trusting Google with all my data and personal information. This one idiotic sentence from the CEO makes the choice to stop using Google services a lot easier for me.
Funny, Schmidt is using the same reasoning people commonly use to defend the patriot act (and, for that matter, other government-instilled impediments on privacy and freedom of speech).
Well, considering the article is from 1999 (hell, I didn't know FlipCode was still even around these days), "back in the day" scripting game engines was an emerging idea. It was a very rare project that talked about scripting, in most cases they were completely custom scripting languages, and often not Turing complete. Lua gained popularity, but it was slow, the game industry suffers from a lot of NIH.
"Appropriacy simply means using the right variety of language for the right context"

And what is wrong with the term "appropriate usage," which is much better attested in dictionaries, for that?

The article is somewhat confused, because it's not clear whether the concern is really teenagers using teen-specific slang, which they always do as part of participating in youth culture, or NOT using standard adult English. Maybe today's teens in today's schools in Britain don't read much classic literature and aren't exposed to worldwide adult usage of English. That would be an argument for improving the quality of the school lessons. But improving the school lessons, while producing graduates who can communicate with speakers of English of all ages from many places, might not reduce use of teen slang for teen-to-teen communication.
Kijiji is the worst name I've seen for anything, ever. Most fonts do not distinguish well enough between 'i' and 'j' for it to be considered even readable.
or they shouldn't be working on that project...
If anyone wonders, Unionen (literally "The union") is the second largest trade union in Sweden, with roughly half a million members. It was formed in 2008 by the merger of two older unions (HTF and SIF).
The formatting is very disconnected from how people read things on screens. Needing a pink dot in the first place is symptom of that problem.
Hang it on the wall in the kitchen and use it as a digital bulletin board.

I've been thinking of a product that could use a prepackaged webserver on the users home network, (or a or an Internet service) to provide a calendering and home organization service on the a users home system and this would make an ideal interface for a kitchen/bathroom/hallway.

If only it were at the old promised price-point.
Upvoted you for a reasonable point.

But I want to subtract half a karma vote for the use of Irregardless. Shame!
Process monitoring with OSSEC
I'd like Eric Schmidt to publicly release his search history, both his work-related and private searches.
On this I can only refer you to e.g. http://singinst.org/AIRisk.pdf. This is a standard reaction, and the standard reply is "The goal is to build something that doesn't want to hurt you in the first place." No one's trying to "constrain" anything, except in the sense that a programmer "constrains" code, not by fighting it, but by writing that particular piece of code into existence out of an exponentially vast space of possible alternatives.
धौला कुआं गैंगरेपः कटियार मुजरिम करार
I've not looked into NaCl much but maybe someone can answer me this: running "real" code in a browser but sandboxed for security? Isn't that Java? This seems particularly key when they're talking about running Chrome OS on ARM.
Yes, but - http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46880000/gif/_46880316...

We're warmer by a good margin, and the variation shows an extremely strong chronological correlation. Also note that the last few decades have been so warm (and affected the mean so much) that every decade prior to 1980 is now considered "below average".

Decade-by-decade shows a clear trend, although the skeptical may not be satisfied with AGW as an explanation. Regardless, random variance isn't sufficient explanation.