skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it's a fear of the Bilski outcome that's motivating the "sue everyone" strategy -- squeeze out some payments before SCOTUS rules.
Part of me wonders whether this difficulty of interoperation is intentional on the part of Microsoft.
Pressing enter after selecting a question goes to the previous question?

You'd expect some basic usability on a web design questionnaire.
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On the contrary, I would argue that conversations of more than 140 characters are not conversations at all. They're speeches, talks, blog posts, etc.

When you converse with someone, you need to stop talking sometimes and listen to what they have to say.
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Wow! The problem remains though of the availability of data. While there are lots of repositories of data. Still, a shocking amount of it resides in published (and unpublished) reports, closed databases, webpage tables and other places where it is not easily exploitable by tools like this (for example, the climate monitoring data in recent news).

They mention "data locked away in PDFs is now usable"...but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the data in a PDF report is still likely just as locked away. Somebody has to manually type in hundreds or thousands of figures into a database or spreadsheet.

We (collectively humanity) need to come to a point where we internalize the principle of "data wants to be free" and make it easily accessible.
If this is Google's strategy, then they are becoming more like Microsoft every day.
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Ditto here. Especially since I've just transitioned from a career in newspapers, where my position was pretty much doomed. It's nice to fill out a survey positively for a change.
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Thanks for the explanation. The effects of the fructose enumerated on the article, tho, are the same.

I did read about the difference in proportions being the biggest propel fact too, it was mentioning a cup of tomato had about 3g of fructose, whereas a regular soft drink had +25g (don't recall the real numbers)
You know the ps3 cost in excess of 800 to manufacture at launch, and sold for around 400. The us army/navy, forgot which, bought a bunch of ps3s to harvest the cell processor. But that doesn't mean that's what most people do. Xbox Also cost more to produce, but I haven't heard of anyone selling it's parts.
Which would you consider the Sonic Youth of today: Philip Glass or Lady Gaga?
Like all design, the more radical, the more risk.

While it would be awesome to see a canard design, which would be the most logical choice given fuel costs and safety, the odds of a struggling airline manufacturer introducing something so risky are extremely low.
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What would you call greed, then?
How is misapplied probability theory a paradox?
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Nicely done. What is it about magazine renewals that seem so effective to you?
Teams of lawyers for every major copyright holder already have a tool that lets them take down any pirated content that they want. What makes you believe giving that same tool to a $6/hour intern would somehow magically fix the problem?

The real solution is probably going to be the filtering we're adding. So far it's been very effective for Fox; we're working on getting other copyright holders signed up.

"Justin.tv has taken a leadership position among live streaming sites by entering into an agreement with Fox to work together on copyright protection for live streaming content. Justin.tv, with consultation from Fox, is implementing an innovative and industry-leading filtering solution designed to prevent copyrighted content from appearing on Justin.tv without authorization."

http://www.businessinsider.com/justintv-signs-deal-with-fox-...
by this definition most elections could be classified as insurgencies as well
I can see an interesting parallel to searching for prime numbers, which are basically our most pure "new, unknown primitive facts." In this model, a Bayesian filter trained to detect "sameness" would almost be a generalization of a sieve of Erastothenes.
Funny, we seem to be thinking along the same general lines.
A big part of the reason for hanging the engines is actually because it means you can make the wings less robust.

If you have in-wing engines they generally have to be near the root (where the wing connects to the fuselage) because engines are large, wings taper and wings shouldn't be too fat. Under wing engines can be hung wherever you like, within reason.

If you simplify things a bit you can think of a wing as a cantilever which supports half the weight of the plane, balanced by an equal upwards force spread out along the whole wing.

By shifting weight towards the middle of the wing, as you can do by moving an engine outboard, some of your weight is no longer at the end of the lever but instead is closer (on average) to where the upwards force is being applied. This decreases the load you have to design for even though the weight remains the same.
This is really quite sad, Teletext was a fantastic example of what you could do with, in modern terms, basically no resources. A teletext page is 1k of data and you can only have 4 links to other pages, and it transfers data only during the field blanking interval (when the rasterization line is moving from the bottom right back to the upper left of the screen). Working within those constraints every byte matters, and in terms of sheer usefulness/byte nothing still can touch it.

When I was a kid, programming in MODE 7 was my favourite thing on the BBC Micro, it was easy to produce something professional-looking. Gonna have one last trawl through Teletext tonight I think.
Especially when you're gaining at the expense of a dying competitor. I don't claim to know how much Linux will grow in the future but there's no doubt it's growth over the last 5 years has had a lot to do with Sun collapsing and companies moving away from Solaris. That's a market that's all but dried up at this point.
Yeah I was about to write about this. Those consoles were sold at a loss because they could make up the difference and then some on game sales (through licensing or however that works).

The qestion then becomes how would Google monetize these phone users? Do they listen to our phone calls or text messages and send us even more targeted ads? Are they looking to monetize voice communication they way they did email?

In order to sell at a loss they have to be making it up somewhere.
I started the business as a hobby in 1995 while I completed high school.
In 1999 I met Jim and became much more focused. I didn't have the
'startup' concept until 2005 when I read Paul Graham's essay, "How to
Make Wealth". In hindsight we should have exited the company somewhere
between 2003 and 2005.

re: not something VCs are interested in - we didn't require VC money.
I do not think VC money is always necessary in starting a company. If anything
I believe it adds a layer of complexity which could hurt founders
especially with their first go at it.

re: laid back - I guess this is relative. I do know things were much
more stressful and frantic in 2001. I also know we are more focused
today and complete far more in 10 hours now than we did back then.
> "Subtitles will be absolutely unaffected by the withdrawal of the public information service.
Streamlined list processing aka. pipes in Python
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People are voting it because they want it to be true, not because it's likely. Our mask of rationality is only a thin disguise over the truth, which is just that we don't care about those topics about which we are capable of being rational.
> earning money was never the point of charging job seekers

Really? Why don't you give all the money to charity then Joel?
I'd love to do the same, but in many areas of the UK (like mine) both Ceefax and Teletext have already disappeared. It's being removed along with the analogue TV signal region-by-region until the final transmitters are turned off in 2012.
I'd like to see the categories automatically created via SVD. I wonder how people would react to the knowledge that their favorite posts are written by 30-something males on Saturdays, and include the word "has" twice as often as the word "my"?
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> product that has changed minimally

No different screen sizes or shapes to support, few memory or processing speed or peripheral availability changes.

Everything that made developing Java for cellphones horrible, it doesn't have.
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Isn't the wifi radio a much bigger power hog than the cell radio?
The entrepreneurs I admire have built long-lasting businesses that continue to pay out dividends year after year. I don't see why flipping half-baked businesses would be a more noble goal than that. Also, I don't care what VCs are interested in and don't believe even small businesses are 'super-laid back'. Besides, if you admire statistical outliers you are likely to end up with nothing.
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"Are you interested enough in a startup to be willing to work for X months for mostly equity, knowing full well that the project has a risk of failure?"

There's your filter.
For a decent phone you need to add: radio subsystem, bluetooth, camera.

Along with these you get problems of heat dissipation, short battery life, long certification process with carriers around the world and god knows what.
The founding fathers used the word 'revolution' rather than 'insurgency,' but yes, that's sort of the point. It's better to have a structured, nonviolent way of overturning the current social order, as the alternative ways are rather messy and ill-thought-out.
Agreed. The comparison between Windows and Mac seems much closer to the Android/iPhone situation than comparisons between Windows and Linux. In fact the parallels to the early days of Windows/Mac seem pretty striking.

Much like the iPhone, the Mac came out first and was stunning it redefined how people thought of not just the market, but their relationship to the device and the potentials of the device.

Much like the iPhone, you could only get MacOS on Mac hardware (although to be fair, Apple did have a few brief, tepid flirtations with licensed clones).

In the end though, even though the Mac remained technologically superior for a long time, and had a superior UI.... well forever apparently, it still wasn't able to hold market dominance against the vast army of PC manufacturers pushing Windows.

Of course, the story wasn't entirely sad for Apple, as they continued to enjoy a profitable nitch with much higher profit margins than most of the PC clone manufacturers. :-)

I'd say if anything, the difference today is that Apple is facing much stiffer competition from Android than it faced from early versions of Windows.

I don't know how many of you are old enough to have used Windows 3.0 and the equivalent time period MacOS, but the differences were fucking amazing. MacOS wasn't just prettier, it was better in every conceivable way!

Whereas, IMHO, the iPhone OS and Android are quite close, each having some advantages over the other.
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Hmmm. I look at the title, the number of upvotes, the URL and the commentary. I think coming from a well-known URL you can get away with it.
Quite possible it was - makes sense to me that they'd make private test flights before the first public one. Good to reduce the chance of any serious issues getting widespread publicity.
I think you should call this out somewhere because your about page certainly does not paint the whole story. My assumption above was simply the result of reading what is likely the most important page. A lifestyle business was my first conclusion based on your tone and sparse details.

Bad VCs add complexity and it's wrong to stereotype all of them as the same, where there is capital there is greed. Good VCs bring a ton of value outside of just money.
Windows is shrinking -- losing significant amounts of market share to Apple. It's not hard to grow faster than something that is shrinking.

And for the record, I cannot find any data which would suggest that Linux is growing at more than a fifth the rate of its closed-and-growing competitor, Mac OS X.
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Your comment is a good example of how not to communicate effectively.

You pose a "question" in such a condescending and dismissive tone that leaves no room for fallibility in your assumptions or your knowledge, no reasonable answer other than "hurr, of course you're right and Boeing is teh dumbs" is possible without introducing conflict. If instead of taking a confrontational tone you took an inquisitive, deprecatory route of acknowledging that you lack perfect knowledge of aerospace design and are curious exactly why the 787 is considered so radical a design, given the seeming lack of outward differences of appearance from existing planes, you would perhaps start an engaging, informative discussion.
The A380 also gets cost savings from sharing the landing fees, taxes and slot costs between more passengers.

That's more applicable for busy airports though - I'd bet that a lot of the traffic at LHR and ATL will switch over to A380s, while it's not as necessary for places like IAH.
What's the difference between "JSON in GET/POST" and "REST with JSON"?
I agree with you about building a value-focused business. However, in the context of this author's post in which they are "looking for co-founders to build, exit, and repeat"... the serial-enterprenuers I admire have done 3-4 $50M+ businesses in 10 years.

Serial entrepreneurs are necessary, they keep MBA students employed. That was just a joke. :)
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I see developers and power users switching over in droves. Android is advancing much faster than iPhones on the tech side.

I do think it'll unseat the iPhone in market share within a few years.
Admittedly, my point would have been better made without the sarcasm. When provoked, I can be as big an asshole as anyone else I suppose.

Still, I think there's a difference between responding to an unprovoked attack thread, and starting one in the first place. In any case, we'd all be better off with a little less sarcasm and a lot more substance in this discussion, and for that I apologize.
Heterogeneous collections, discriminated unions, and GADTs can be implemented easily in either thrift or protobuf by leveraging inclusion of custom type-tagged messages/data.

However, while the encodings are absolutely sufficient to represent these data structures -- if you so choose -- my experience dictates that keeping serialized messages typed and as simple as possible is advantageous from the perspective of long-term maintenance and interoperability.
Yeah, it is difficult to know exactly how to go about it. As Jim said
above we ran into the problem of too much noise when we presented the
idea locally.

No one wants to be excluded. On the same breath, when I started out I
had many preconceived notions about the best way to run a company based
on what I thought was common sense. Only by trying things and tracking
the results was I able to see that the right approach wasn't always
intuitive. I understand things now that I couldn't have known without
the actual experience of starting the company and taking it
through to the exit. I'd prefer to start the next venture
with people already at that stage, if possible.

All that said, we're really most interested in people who are good
friends; who have worked closely together and understand each other
very well.
This is a good approach. I do wonder how much of it translates over (from junk mail to a website or email) but that's something that can be tested. At the very least it provides a good starting foundation to work off of for those unsure of their copywriting abilities.
That sounds very high without a solid source.

For that to be an annual number, however, sounds pretty reasonable, especially given Google's asking price for an annual ad-free Google Apps subscription: $50.
That's not a bad idea, actually, I'll talk to Jeff about that.
the documentation does not differentiate between billing enabled or not, so I assume the limit is for all accounts.
I wouldn't mind an interface with some knobs and dials, given that one can escape the linearity of the feed, and replace that with a recombinant stratified interface which can present the information space from several different vantage points. It'd be a line of flight interface:

“This is how it should be done: Lodge yourself on a stratum, experiment with the opportunities it offers, find an advantageous place on it, find potential movements of deterritorialization, possible lines of flight, experience them, produce flow conjunctions here and there, try out continuums of intensities segment by segment, have a small plot of new land at all times. It is through a meticulous relation with the strata that one succeeds in freeing lines of flight...” – Deleuze and Guattari

http://www.linesofflight.net/linesofflight.htm
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This is what Square should have designed....
My reaction was "This sounds way too good to be true."
Missed that, thanks. Might have been clearer if they had labeled it "starting point for discussion" rather than straw man.

I am not sure if redefining the whole Java language completely is really useful. Why not just switch to another language entirely.

Perhaps it would be more useful to improve support for functional languages in the Java VM. But Java itself can only get worse by piling even more syntax options on top of it.
Still, the headline is only six characters from the truth. Prefix "Rumor:"
Apple is already using something similar (if not this device) in their stores. I noticed last week in the 5th Ave. Apple Store in NY that the guy had an iPod Touch with a card reader/barcode scasnner as opposed to the windows mobile devices they traditionally used for iPhone activation, etc.

He remarked it's apple's goal to move completely to these, as the WinCE devices suck. Pretty cool, although you've also just introduced a fantastic portable card skimmer :)
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Theoretically, you could have a (lazily-evaluated) subscription to the entire universe of discourse. It would start out completely hidden, but would gradually become visible in your reader as your filters trim down the stream to a tractable level. Thus, you wouldn't so much be saying "tell me something I don't know," but rather "tell me everything, and leave out the 99.9999% I don't care about."
I'm not really familiar with the subject, but if Google uses their profit from online advertising to get people to use their phones (by selling them cheaper than "possible"), wouldn't that be the same as Microsoft putting ie in Windows? So what do the anti-competition laws say about this?
My point is purely an aesthetic one. This is what Boeing could have done:

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

Now that's beautiful. It looks like a Skylon:

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

Instead it looks the same as every other airliner.
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I believe they flew the A380 a few times before the big day.

Watching them throw it around a bit at the Paris air show was interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH6tO1qZez8#t=1m06s
"You should hold contractors to the same level of code quality that you’d expect from your employees."

Copyright violation is orthogonal to code quality. The protections against this kind of behavior are usually legal, not procedural.
that's why i always have some thermite on hand. it's very cheap too but you have to be super careful storing it, there's a label on the powdered aluminum saying never get it wet as it'll start reacting.

from the Al powder MSDS:
"Dust may form flammable or explosive mixture with air, especially when damp. Reacts violently and/or explosively with water, steam or moisture. May ignite or explode on contact with moist air. May cause eye and skin irritation. May cause respiratory tract irritation. Air sensitive. "

although i'm pretty sure I'm on some FBI watch list now.

http://www.ecrater.com/search.php?keywords=thermite&x=0&...

As for "Don't enter the correct BIOS password within 30 seconds of a boot attempt? Buh Bye, HDD."

Well that'll just start a fire and you'd be liable for arson. You can't really put out thermite once the reaction starts.
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I don't quite follow how charging money eliminates "…unqualified, and other candidates who really don't stand a chance" from the selection pool.

What does charging a fee have to do with qualification, and what other factor makes them not stand a chance (and which is also mitigated by charging a fee)?
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An interface that weird had better be devastatingly well-implemented, or people will just be confused.
I think an intern would work because simply looking at the popular content on your site leads to obviously pirated material. Whatever you have isn't effective if your leader boards are full of copyrighted content.

There are a lot of smart people working at Justin.tv so this isn't news to you--it's clear that part of your game plan is to get away with peddling stolen content. Having a takedown button for media partners is a way for you to look the other way while most of your popular content is illegitimate. YouTube did it and they are rich now right?
Very cool, but I have to question one statement from the article.

"""The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say."""

What about hermit crabs, trap door spiders, and those crabs that build refuse that they find on their shells as camo?

In each of these cases the organism is using an external object(s) as a form of shelter/protection/camo, in the same way the octopus is. While we are more accustomed to them as they are common, there seems to be very few differences in behavior. We are simply seeing the first generation of a new trait amongst some octopi. Of course any new trait, especially one as nifty as this is cool, it seems like a stretch to call them the first invertibrate tool-user.
I think there's been a slight shift in outside perceptions of New York on the strength of a handful of consumer-focused startups (bit.ly, Tumblr, Etsy, Hunch, etc.) and a handful of well-known early-stage firms (Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, Betaworks, Founder Collective, etc.)

Before the Hunches and Betaworks showed up, New York was still a great place to build a company, but it had more of a reputation for advertising technology (DoubleClick, Right Media, Tacoda, Quigo.) I don't read a lot of Dave Winer, but I suspect ad targeting might not float his boat as much as it floats mine.
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Plain stupid (thoughts on the RockYou fiasco)
If you think about it Google's entire business model operates this way. How much do you pay for GMail, YouTube, Search, etc? $0 yet Google has to spend $X per user to provide and maintain the service, pay the bandwidth bills, pay the engineers, etc. They're recouping all that money and a ridiculous amount of profit on advertising. I don't think it's too far out of the realm of possibility they would extend this model to hardware in selected markets where they are pretty late to the game (as a platform provider) If this is indeed Google's strategy we will see subsidized Chrome OS based net books next year also.