skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://mixpanel.com (YC '09)

Basically, when something interesting happens, you make an AJAX call to a logging service. Mixpanel then graphs events and conversions over time and provides user profiling similar to Google Analytics.

You can also create virtual page views in Google Analytics by calling pageTracker._trackPageview.
I bet they would work great. If you could tell a 3D artist that he can use as much detail as he wants for this game... well, you'll get what they show on Zbrush central. All those models have hundreds of times more polygons than what would ever be accepted in a real game.
I've had a few jobs where two weeks notice turned into two weeks paid vacation. It was standard practice as they were routinely paranoid about sabotage.
Not so much the developing world, just take a look at the majority of students in the majority of schools across the US. Anti-intellectualism, previously relegated to a small percentage of trouble makers in each class, has blossomed, and is now the modus operandi for most non-honors students in the American school system. The days of Idiocracy are upon us!
Your second point is the wrong comparison. Searching for "San Francisco" is not equivalent to searching for "Tiananmen 1989." If you search for "San Francisco 1989" the Loma Prieta earthquake is indeed the dominant result.
Social media (straight from the source) trumps traditional media once again.
If I were Apple, I'd add some nice APIs to help integrate Steam games with the iPhone. MMO integration with the iPhone too. (Must be an App for controlling training and trading in Eve.)
Yesterday, I was sending one of my workers to go pick something up at an address she didn't recognize. I told her to look it up on Baidu Maps (better version of Google Maps for China) and I found that she had never used a computer in her life and didn't know how to. She's in her early 30s. I was pretty shocked - I thought only people of my grandparents' age couldn't use computers.

But, upon reflection, computer illiteracy is probably relatively common among people without a strong educational background, especially in developing countries. It's probably pretty hard for a taxi driver, for example, to justify spending hundreds of dollars on a laptop when he only makes a few hundred a month - plus, what would he really use it for? I wonder what the statistics look like.
I don't think it's a matter of being able to work together. It's just better that everyone move on. Two weeks is standard and expected in Silicon Valley. Also keep in mind that the workforce there tends to be pretty mobile (there are a lot of startups, after all) so this essentially defaults to a standard protocol. Nobody really needs to be told how to quit other than perhaps the first time. I'm sure other locations and industries have different expectations and conventions.
MetaLabs: Hey, you guys are murdering children. We aren't going to contact you to confirm. Instead, we are going to publicly rip you a new one and make assumptions.
Someone at Mozilla: Whoa! Something went wrong. We didn't mean it that way, but let's fix it right away because we can.
Someone else at Moz: Should we say something?
Someone at Mozilla: No, we shouldn't. We don't have the whole story, and we don't want to make even more mistakes by saying something that isn't true.
Someone else at Moz: Okay. At least we started on the path of fixing the problem.
Public: OMGWTFBBQ COVERUP!!!!!! SPAEK NOW FOOLZ!!!
Well, whatever it takes to get kids more interested in science... right? How many folks at SpaceX do you think started their careers as Star Wars junkies?
There's been quite a few good studies done that show the rate of return on education funding is something absurd like usually 1:10. Unfortunately I don't have any links to them on hand, but if you google around you should find the studies and then we can start quibbling about methodology. :-P

The other point you're making is that states with strong educational investments are hurting worse right now. I think you might find that those states are hurting worse because the difference between the amazing acceleration of everything they felt when the economy was good is just so out of step with the stagnant environment that comes about when the economy is bad that they simply had more to lose.

If you're referring to California, then that's a situation that has a lot of factors, many to do with the fact that the California Constitution is simply an document which is downright insane and progressively continuing to get more insane as voters keep lobbing stuff into it.
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Can somebody please explain what a tracing JIT is?
Actually, he's talking about children "in a low socio-economic status classroom in New York City", not old people, and not in developing countries.

I've never dealt with students who "didn't grasp the concept of keyboard shortcuts", and so I'm inclined to think the situation has been dramatised for the sake of hitting the message home. But other than that, I really do share his worries: I believe you need quite a bit more than a basic grasp of technology, if you don't want to be made redundant by a computer very soon.
On this site, downvote doesn't mean "disagree", it means you violated some etiquette.
If by "a hair", you mean statistically insignificant, sure.
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Yep, that happens as well. In fact in many US states, certainly in California, 2 weeks notice can also turn into collect-your-things-and-go. But this relatively rare, given normal a employer-employee relationship.
I've never even heard of anyone asking for 4-6 weeks from an exiting employee. In my experience, offering 2 weeks is the standard courtesy but most ex-employers will work to get you out the door ASAP so they can get on with things.
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Anti Intellectualism has never been "relegated to a small percentage of trouble makers." It's always been a popular ideology in American culture.

http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Ric...

If you went to a public school in the USA where anti-intellectualism was NOT the dominant meme, consider yourself lucky...
I don't understand. What component? We're talking about software here.

Just because an interface object behaves in a way reminiscent of a physical object does not mean it is that object. It has an entirely different mechanism. What you're saying is that one kind of mechanism should be patentable while another should not, but it's not clear why there is a distinction.
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I had one month's notice in my contract, knew I was leaving three months in advance and gave six weeks. Figured that was a good balance between giving a generous amount of time, and the risk of things turning sour or being asked to serve out one month only.

I found it quite a hard thing to do, not dissimilar to breaking up with someone. There was a lot of "it's not you, it's me"...
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Thanks Shawn that is very useful. I will check out scalr.net but might well email you as well, thanks for the offer :)
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If you're really good, your boss is going to do everything they can to get you to stay. This is great advice on how to leave as quickly and painlessly as possible.

I usually thought that if someone is interviewing with you they probably made up their mind on quitting their job, so I didn't push it at all. But I've seen this happen, where it ends up taking 3 or 4 weeks because they're finishing up a project. I'm glad they finish what they started, but its true, I probably could have used them yesterday.
They knew Star wars was Scifi. What would the effect be if they joined to be part of something cool to find out it was nonsense?
Of course the battery is a limiter, but not many people are doing mobile gaming on their phones for 2 hours a day either.
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I'm bemused to observe that this was essentially the plot of Flushed Away.
I didn't read this article because the web design was so bad.

Native scrollbars. We have them. They're 25 years old. For the last decade or so, we've even had these handy scroll wheels that work with them. When you attempt to replace them with your cutesy home-rolled Javascript version and force me to navigate to a button and click it to scroll, you give me every incentive to ignore you.

See (e.g.) the classic Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts:

http://www.asktog.com/columns/022DesignedToGiveFitts.html
The Metalab guys should be happy about all the free press they are now getting.

Not saying that Metalab did this, but I wonder if there is a PR lesson here. Anonymously upload your companies design to a popular FOSS project and then pretend to be all dejected when you 'find out'. Air your grievance publicly and boom, instant PR!
He's done something worthwhile with a fairly small portion of the riches and is using that as a very successful propaganda machine to counter his negative image.

Please keep in mind that this was the CEO under which a number of very questionable actions (anti-trust, SCO) were effected.
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The reception on the NANOG list was "why is Cisco so proud to announce how behind they are?" - apparently other competitors like Juniper have been shipping similar functionality already.

And the 322Tbps routing functionality is really a cluster of many racks (about 70?) of equipment filled with line cards.
Beautiful UI design for Wacom
A lot of people prefer to receiving PDFs because they are safer than MS Office documents. Maybe not eh?
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If the new employer is getting involved trying to make this as easily as possible, why not just give the present employer a call and work it out? The employee has their part in it already, why also make them into an emotional middleman?
Indeed, you're right, I suppose what I'm speaking about is an adversity to all forms of productive behavior (which I incorrectly labeled intellectualism) that I witnessed while in primary and secondary school. I just assumed that previous generations (I'm a member of the "millennials") must have had a higher percentage of productive members.
Like you have, I would have looked at using the cloud as it is only for 6 months. But even if you got one Extra Mem machine at 17.1GB RAM you would still be paying >£1400 for the 6 months use.

I am sure that Sun used have something for graduate projects where you could apply and run on their servers for a set amount of time, but I can't see where it might be under the Oracle Regime. Sun also used to give you a server on sale or return 90(?) day trial at one point.

I'm tending to agree with you, but I would build several computers myself (ebuyer.com or novatech.com for example), and then break them down/sell them on after the 6 months use.

Failing that you could always do what the US government do, buy a shed load of PS3 and use them like a grid/blade server cluster. Then sell them on when you are done (cite: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/09/military-purchases-2...)

hth
Your weight is just one factor. Others, some of which are more important are:

* Your fitness level.

* What kind of gearing your bike has.

* The weather.

* How much you actually feel like riding up a hill.
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You yourself demonstrate nicely that to many, the term is "useful" only as partisan political ammunition, for your "definition" excludes so many of the defining features of fascism (nationalism, authoritarianism, militarism) that it is completely meaningless.
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PDF's are not inherently insecure. It's just that Adobe Reader is crap (and any sane person would have switched to a better option a long time ago).
Because they're not the middleman, they're the principal actor.
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Propaganda? Please. Outside of the open source tech bubble Bill G doesn't/didn't have a negative image to counter. He has given away ~$30 billion which is not a small portion at all (> half of his current net worth). It's his main focus and he will likely donate teh bulk of his remaining fortune. iMacs and iPods don't save lives, providing vaccinations saves millions.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/01/29/davos.bill.gates.dona...

In the innovative products race Steve Jobs wins. In the does good things race Bill Gates wins. It's admirable.
But what about model animation?

Very helpful reddit comment about this demo: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/bbg9c/unlimited_deta...
Thanks for this - I probably would've thought it tacky to suggest what to write for the introduction... like I'd be expecting you to read from my script and putting words into your mouth. It's good to know that you'd actually appreciate help with what to say.
Assuming the employer/employee relationship is healthy, I give the customary 2 weeks, but always allow for up to 4 additional weeks of off-site 1099 consulting and communication.

This can be especially helpful when transitioning a large codebase, or really any suitably complex project, where some of the undocumented "lore" isn't readily apparent to either party until after the formal transition effort is already well underway.
Can you list one of those options?
That sounds too complicated. They just need a slider between:
* avoid hills like plague, and
* bring it on!
Nothing could be more exciting than "porting" traditional arcade/console concepts to this new world of location-aware devices. Hope I'm not going too off topic here, but where are the games that overlay, for example, an MMO experience on the physical location of the user. In the Smithsonian? Good luck fighting that T-Rex statue that just decided to make you lunch. Outclassed? Somewhere in the building is "Sephiroth1994lolz" and you can push a button to see if they want to join for a split of the loot. Or, perhaps you need a new item and you've been saving up, so you go to the local grocery store and see what people have listed there in virtual space? PK? Awesome. Hang out at the mall and see who shows up. I'd rather play in the world.

Sorry for ranting.
Would love this. Also useful for when someone directly links to another comment on HN, and you want to pull up and get the context.
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tl;dr commas good, technology bad, Enlightnment thinkers good, poor people bad
I think he mentions around the 5 minute mark that this is not quantised (point clouds like Voxel, which comes in again in the end minute comparison).

Why is the move from a polygonised surface to a smoother surface made with more polygons and not made by mathematically defining curves like polylines in 2D vector art. I know processing, but surely current GPUs can manage completely smooth curves for some games (not FPS in other words).

What also interests me is that using a perfectly smooth line rendering appears actual less real than using the voxel approach and how that will effect developmemt of game physics.
I bet the History channel would do it. Half that channel is ghost shows anyways.
Foxit Reader if you are on Windows, Preview if you're on a Mac, evince if you're on Linux.

I personally do not use Adobe Reader on any platform. I found the alternatives to be both leaner and not lacking any relevant features.
I mapped a route from the Haight Street entrance of Golden Gate Park to the Castro Safeway. The route ends up being almost correct.

The route going to the Safeway bombs down Page street to Laguna and then wraps around. Overshooting like this sort of makes sense, but I would have just cut out at The Wiggle at Scott street and weaved over.

On the way back it used The Wiggle, but then goes up Page, which has a bike path, but is very steep. Elevation-wise, it makes more sense to do the full Wiggle over to Fell and then use the Panhandle bike trail.
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Half of my day job is supporting about 40 users in our companies New York office. The last 4 infections that I've been able to look into involved adobe reader in one form or another. I've only seen one malicious pdf file, most of the time it's JavaScript that loads reader and delivers a payload. I haven't quite figured out that part yet, and frankly I don't care enough. I'm satisfied knowing the cause.

I keep reader up to date but often these exploits hit either right after an update as been released so the patch hasn't been applied, or there just isn't a patch yet. It's almost enough to make me switch to foxit. I just have to do the research to see if it supports the advanced features (forms, digital signatures, encrypted files) that people are using.
The runtime watches the code run, and if it notices that a specific type is in use in a certain code section, it rewrites the generated code to use that type when possible.

For example, if you want to add all the integers from 1 to 2^31, the JIT will eventually realize that the accumulator can be a register (with a machine int in it) instead of a JavaScript big integer. (If that overflows, it will switch back.) Obviously addition is faster when it's one CPU instruction with no memory loads, so this is a big speed win.

JIT in general means you generate native code at runtime instead of at compile time.
I don't have to make you anything. I have a right to my opinion and to express it politely. Please quote any impoliteness on my part.

I'd also suggest this gedankenexperiment: imagine buying a game controller, owning it for three years, and getting good at the game. Then imagine buying a guitar, owning it for three years, and getting good at it.

How does this suggestion make you feel? Do those feelings come from my words, or from somewhere in yourself?

Please don't blame me. I'm not making you be anything.
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Photos posted here:

http://gallery.me.com/jon.jonsen#100016
Sometimes Baltic states are considered Northern Europe, sometimes Eastern Europe. In any case article mentions Estonia as well.
Not all of these are gifts, plenty of them (especially the larger ones) are structured as investments.

If a mafioso gives his money to charity do you think that qualifies him for sainthood ?

Ask the stacker guys if they think Bill Gates is a nice person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics
Push? Bzr is sponsored by Canoncial.
I just told my boss last week I was leaving so that I could join a startup! I unfortunately gave a longer notice than I would have liked to because I have my hands in a lot of the details around. I have the open door here at my current (for the time being) employer, so if it hits the fan (god forbid), I do have a job. I wish I had read this last week!! At least I start my new job in a couple weeks!
So that's going to be our victory then? We'll be getting a new copyright law with more term extensions, three strikes, ISP enforcement, and god only knows what else they manage to cook up, but at least we get to read it before congress passes it? That sure makes it better.
You have just described Haskell. Annotate types if you want, let the compiler infer otherwise. Very dynamic feeling, but much safer. And you're right, it can make for some very fast code.
I agree. When I want to make a game look pretty, the things I increase before model detail are (roughly in this order): texture quality, lighting/shading quality, shadow detail, THEN model detail and finally post processing and special effects.

I find using high resolution textures has a much greater impact on quality than high polygon models, especially when we're already making models seem like they have higher detail using such tricks as normal mapping.

I also agree with the programmer art comment. The visuals in the video are TERRIBLE. If they want to prove that this is superior, then they need to make something that actually looks better what they want to prove is inferior - in this case that means that the art must be on par with existing games.
>With each delay, the theory becomes a hair less fanciful

I've been searching the list to try and classify this correctly, and I think it's this one: http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html#co...
[Ask HN]: Best RoR references.
I am trying to pick up ruby on rails (2.3) as fast as possible to get my feet off the ground making some code work. Can you guys recommend any resources that provide docs or tutorials which can help me get a good understanding of how RoR works and how to decode the magic behaviors?
Often, there's more information at runtime than compile time. This may even be true at times for statically typed languages.

I think the static/dynamic type debate is just a vestige of the state of interpreter/compiler technology in the 80's. I wish everyone would get over it and introspect and debug their knee-jerk reactions so we can get on with the next stage of language implementation.
It is not ironic that Jerome H. Lemelson, arguably the most successful individual U.S. inventor ever [Sony paid him royalties for magnetic tape drive used in tens of millions of Sony Walkman], equated financial success as an inventor with protracted litigation.

"The American dream is that if the average American invents something novel and worthy of patenting, he'll find someone to license it. However, for most contemporary inventors , it hasn't worked out that way. The independent inventor today still has an extremely difficult time convincing corporations that he has a product which deserves to be on the market. Most companies have a tremendous resistance to ideas and technology developed on the outside."

"You cannot develop a reputation for somebody who gives up. You have to be known as a fighter for your rights. Otherwise, you'll never license anything...Even Thomas Edison had a tough time supporting and protecting his patents. He spent about $1.4 million [to defend his inventions], and this was around the turn of the century, when beer was a nickel."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_H._Lemelson
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Blast Processing!
I have trouble taking that state senator too seriously.

He's clearly outraged about "being bullied" by Amazon...

but it's less clear that he has done an cool-headed analysis of the impact of the legislation on all parties (Amazon, affliates, customers, state treasury).
I don't use Reader, as far as I can... unfortunately, some PDF features are not well supported by other clients - for example, comments/mark-up doesn't seem to show up in Preview, usually.

Is there a properly full-featured PDF viewer for Mac that isn't from Adobe?
I wish I'd read this before I gave my notice to my boss this morning! Who knew what chaos could be caused by one simple email.
From the article:

But this is just the beginning. This is a resolution by a virtually unanimous parliament, but it is not formally binding for the Commission. If they want to ignore us, they technically can. Then we will have to fight on

And once we do get access to the documents, the fight over the content of the agreement will begin in earnest. This was a big win, but it was only a battle. Most of the war remains.