skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that someone forgot to change the flight number on the transponder, so what you're looking at is the path of one plane over a couple flights.
> "In 50 years, only a minority will be able to earn a living on a free labor market."

Marxist communism was predicated on this assumption, based on the increasing efficiency of industrialism. It's an interesting idea, but historically the trend has been that increased efficiency leads to increased production and increased consumption, not static production and reduced labor. I see no reason why this would cease to be the case.
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I know, I'm just pulling your leg... ;-)
I think you need to be a bit more firm on the rules for it. Maybe even give people a contract...
I think that's from his style, not his physical looks.
Cool! This is a great way to visualize the relationship of notes in a chord. One of the harder things to teach in beginning music theory are chord forms, since it requires thinking relatively, rather than absolutely. Major and minor chords are related together not because of the notes themselves, but because of the intervals between them.

In this visualization, though, all the related chords are roughly the same shape. Seems like it'd be a great way to harness visual thinking to teach a more abstract concept.

Very cool!
I do live (fort greene) and work (manhattan) in NYC. You should never use broker's though, they're a waste of money. It does take a little work to find a good deal, but you definitely can if you look early enough.

Overall, I would agree. NJ seems to have the most cheap places.

Great point about 45 commute just inside Manhattan.

EDIT: I live in fort greene and I pay 735 a month -- for validation purposes.
This is an excellent resource that I was unaware of. That limitation was not present in the 8-19-2009 claims, but was in 12-16-2009. I made a cursory glance over the documents available on PAIR, but was unable to find the examiners specific rejection that caused them to add this. There are a lot of references on this application, tho.
It's OK, we found the remains. It landed on New York.
Right. Since urban areas are (in practice) fuzzily-defined, the real economic question is not "What are the rents?" but "What is the best rent/commute/quality-of-life trade-off available?" The fact that a few neighborhoods are expensive isn't relevant, but the fact that every accessible neighborhood is expensive is a problem.

Defining "reasonable rent" as 30% of after-tax income (which is about the point at which governments should limit rent levels, IMO) and noting that an entry-level job in New York pays about $3500/month after tax, reasonable rent would be $1050 for a starter apartment.

It's not impossible to find a decent apartment for under $1000/month in "the greater New York area", but it is impossible to do so with less than a 30-minute commute.
Perception trumps knowledge: optical illusion
This would be the company who owns 36% of the global market in phones. The largest phone maker in the world today.

Oh, and 47% of the smartphone market:
http://www.cultofmac.com/gartner-data-places-iphone-os-as-th...

Yes. Still relevant.

Android, on the other hand, has 4%.
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It's not stupid. It's rational. You're lamenting the fact that the market is demanding games that you, as a craftsman, think are crap. Crappity crap crap.

On the other hand, if you make one of these simple, crappy games and it is successful, you will have millions of dollars that you can use to fund any type of game development you want.

I suppose you see that as compromising your principles or something. In any case, the fact that you "hate it" is an artificial barrier to your own success. If you really believe it's easy for you to make one of these games (and therefore easy to make millions of dollars), why wouldn't you?

I'm sure you'll rationalize it by saying "I don't want that kind of success" or "If I have to compromise my beliefs about game design even once to be successful, I don't want it."

Well, alright, that's fine, but you should see how you're limiting yourself strategically. The market is screaming right now, "HEY! MAKE THESE GAMES!" You're free to ignore it.

As for being rude, well, your article insulted a lot of quality game designers I know whose work, I'd wager, has touched more lives than yours ever has or will. So I'm not too worried about being rude, especially since I think your attitude is what's crappy, not these games.
You are referring to this clause, correct?

"attaching a link associated with at least one of the activities of another user to at least one of the plurality of news items where the link enables a viewing user to participate in the same activity as the another user"

The github news feed includes notifications of comments, and there is a link that can be used to go to the comment page and also comment. As I'm reading clause, the link itself doesn't need to actually cause an action, and the link in that github news item "enables a viewing user to participate in the same activity as the another user."

Also, you can edit and make commits from the web interface, so this could fall under this as well.
This is why I rip my (rended Netflix) DVD's before watching them.
sla.ckers.org has the most epic thread of XSS vectors of all time

http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2,15812

You can find the the most bizarre javascript out there.
There is another possibility:

C) The profitability of these games are reliant on a unsustainable pattern, or by itself contributes negatively to sustained profit. Say you were a knockoff manufacturer for expensive watches, and you were for some reason able to get your goods into the official distribution channel for real watches - this is an extremely profitable situation for you. Then everyone figures out how you're making money hand over fist and starts doing it too, and soon consumer confidence in the quality of the watches drops through the floor, and nobody (real or knockoff) makes any money. This is a very real possibility Nintendo faces. The profitability of shovelware relies on consumer confidence of products in the channel in general, and the market has a definite carrying capacity for shit games - exceeding this risks the viability of the platform entirely.
Very cool links! Thanks for sharing. These bar-graph visualizations remind me of Gregorian notation for some reason.
Virgin Media to unveil 100 mb/second broadband service
Assuming you mean in terms of protecting the users, I tend to believe that the people who would buy into this are those who have faith in me building cool things anyway, and will take me at my word. I don't think many people who don't believe me would buy into this, with or without a contract.

If you mean protecting myself, I don't think the people who would buy into this are going to scam me. If I were going to be selling some low-margin items, I'd probably be more concerned, but I just don't see it as an issue honestly.
Day Against DRM: Tuesday, May 4th 2010
Andrew Warner is soliciting suggestions for who he should interview next
Pioneer of online job search starts over again
AFAIK if you don't need the battery, it would be best to store it in a cool place, fully charged. Li-ion batteries don't like heat, and the bottom of a laptop is a quite warm place.
* Does the transfer function not need to take some
input other than the state?

* Can you convert a denotational semantics to an
operational semantics (and vice versa)? Is there any
value in doing this?
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a) More importantly, they enforce a discipline on you: never treat data as code.

b) I'm guessing there are plenty of databases that execute parametrized queries entirely differently than a plaintext ones, including the absence of an escaping step. Since the whole point of quoting + escaping is to demarcate the "data" parts of a query, and you've already done that with parameters, there's no reason a query engine can't use the parameter directly rather than run it through a useless escape then parse-and-unescape cycle.
The github news feed includes notifications of comments, and there is a link that can be used to go to the comment page and also comment

Ah, that would likely infringe. They could easily get around this by removing the direct link to comment and having users view the comment thread before commenting. Or have a text box instead of a link, where the user would enter their comment directly in the news feed.
Isn't that a normal, not logarithmic, spiral?
You're just battling a strawman here. Nobody uses "passion" to mean "ignore everything and only care about coding". Passion means you care about your work, and care about the outcome, as opposed to being a drone who just cares about getting a fancier job title or "just paying the bills".
You want an anti-pirate system that will work? That's easy, we've had a working system for centuries!

You hang 'em from the yardarm as a warning to others, and then you burn their ships to the water line.

Pardon? Oh, you mean the OTHER kind of piracy.
A Look at China’s Online Censorship
"We'll be integrating everything at the end, just make sure your bit works"
Very informative post.
EU requests Google delete Street View images after 6 months
Popular topic of the moment:
http://searchyc.com/submissions/facebook+patent?sort=by_date
Maybe drop some kind of very low-albedo, non-toxic powder on the top (or as much of it as can covered) to encourage faster melting.

The fresh water will still cause disruptions to currents, though presumably not as much as a solid mass...
It has a cute little story and the design is simple and intuitive.

I played through the whole game in a matter of days and I still wanted more. They must have got something right that Tower Defense and it's clones missed.
Ask HN: Open source Stack Overflow equivalent?
Is there an open source version of a stack overflow/Q&A software (that's fairly decent)? If not, somebody should build it.
The "automation" that occurred in the Industrial Revolution was the standardization of process-- especially in regard to the use of capital-intensive machines that required a skilled workforce-- but those processes still required humans as the main actors, since robots and computers hadn't been invented yet.

This led to a Jevons Paradox-- increased efficiency in the use of X, where X is human labor, led to the increased use of X. In 1944, full human employment was possible in the United States, for pretty much the last time.

We're in the midst of another Jevons "paradox", but in this case, X is abstract computational (and mechanical, in the form of robots) power. So computers are becoming more powerful and prolific, replacing human labor. The result is that only people who are smart enough to understand the new regime can contribute in a sustainably economically valuable way; the rest will see the market value of their labor approach zero.
I went to Gonzaga University. In fairness, their program was awesome at teaching the fundamentals, and I did leave with an excellent grounding in both the theory and practice of programming.

But only when it came to the actual code. Nothing about UI, design, business, etc. And only as much architecture as they really HAD to teach to make the students strong programmers.
Fusion makes functional programming fun
In further defense of NYC, I want to address this whole rent/commuting argument.

We are comparing this to Silicon Valley, where the freeway is packed with traffic both ways every morning and evening. That same commute in NYC means you could live in very affordable places in Brooklyn, Harlem, Queens, and NJ.

Another founder I know, after exiting his company, moved to NYC from SV mainly because he couldn't stand being stuck in traffic all day.

Commuting in via the subway or NJ Transit is no longer than the time a lot of people spend in traffic in SV.

And the best part? You can read a book. I just finished another chapter in Founder's at Work on the subway back from a meeting. Awesome.

And since when was SF and Palo Alto that cheap anyway?

Plus in SV you need to own a car and car insurance. That is expensive. I couldn't afford that so I had to borrow a bike. That bike had to get me EVERYWHERE. Want to go to a meeting in SF? There goes half your day because you're at the mercy of the caltrain.

Anyway, I could go on, but you get the point. I would argue that NYC will save you time and money when it comes to transportation and rent. OK /rant

ps SV and Palo Alto will always have a place in my heart :).
I hot swap all the time, even if the computer is plugged in there should be no problem with sparks or anything like that.
I feel obliged to post the related XKCD comic (Bobby Tables):
http://xkcd.com/327/
The Doctor's Dilemma
MyTown and their location based items and ads
As a-priori pointed out in another reply:

My guess is that someone forgot to change the flight number on the transponder, so what you're looking at is the path of one plane over a couple flights.
I know that there's been a lot of talk about RepRap already, but I like to see the occasional new post on it because it lets me see how the project is going every so often. So, as a lazy HN reader who wants to keep tabs on how replicator technology is progressing without writing it on my calendar, I thank you.
Ex-Microsoft developer Koss on why he's now a 'Google fanboy'
My title is probably a little inaccurate. The frequencies decrease logarithmically as you move outward on the spiral.
"This data contract won't ever change..."
That's really impressive.

If like many businessmen you find yourself having more money than time, view any page rendered in Rails, save the HTML, and upload to these guys. http://www.themespress.com/ It is all automatic and costs $10. Then you can serve them from the same site with a bit of reverse proxy magic. See: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/08/22/using-wordpress-and-rail...

You don't get designer quality outcomes, obviously, but it will let you add a Wordpress blog to any Rails site you have in twenty minutes or less.

Example: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/blog/ (main site Rails, blog served from Wordpress, theme created directly from above site with one-line modification to remove dates from blog posts.)
I'll build one this weekend.
SEMANTIC FAIL.

From a dictionary:

Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.

The object of such enthusiasm: Soccer is her passion.
Even the Makerbot is still a bit touchy. I had a friend go through a similar experience with his.
Symbian is Nokias low/middle-end OS, while Maemo (think N900) will be more direct competitor to iPhone and Android.

edit: also imho Nokias problem is not the quality of their products, but the heavily distorted market in US which makes it difficult to a foreign company like Nokia to compete.
They're using the numbers from YouNoodle's report, which only goes back 5-6 years.
"This will probably never need to change"

also

"Nobody would ever want to enter something like that / use the system in that way"
Seems a little bit light on content. Yes, these are alarming phrases, but just listing four phrases does not necessarily make a noteworthy article.
Is it a supervolcano or is it just supercharged perception of everything that might or might not have to do with climate change?

I can't bring myself to react to very long term potential dangers in the same way I would react to clear and immediate dangers like a volcano that's going to blow up in my face. That's why your analogy doesn't work for me.
Brokers seem like a good deal because they would be if they did their job. If a broker could get you a 10% better place, or 10% cheaper rent (which we'll consider equivalent) then a broker would be paid off in a year and a half (New York brokers typically charge 10-17% of a year's rent, for the uninitated). However, they start you off on miserable apartments, often play bait-and-switch games with nice ones that "just happen" to get taken before your application clears, and stop taking your calls after 5 or 6 showings-- God forbid they do some actual work to earn that commission. This makes them essentially worthless.
Agreed. Also, none of the coders I know are passionate about programming. Rather, they're passionate about making cool stuff.

As the saying goes, programming is not a what, but a how. Hackers don't get passionate about the act of coding any more than carpenters get passionate about driving nails.
iFixit wrote a great article behind maintaining your battery back in November, covers a lot of similar data as the two battling arguments on HN today.

http://www.ifixit.com/blog/?p=1897
From personal experience, I can tell you that's not remotely how Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital invest. (Can't tell you about Founder's Collective or Flybridge because I haven't taken money from them.) They're certainly willing to put money into companies before the risk is gone.
a nice side-benefit of nosql databases is this massively underestimated problem (usually, depends on the product) going away
Really, the manufacturer should manage the battery for me when the notebook is connected to a power outlet. I don't want to have to worry about that kind of thing. Like, if it should run on battery once per month, just make it do so automatically. Is that too much to ask? Maybe some physical law prevents that kind of thing?
I'll look into it, thanks!

Branching off the links that fadmmatt posted above, I found a booklist (http://matt.might.net/articles/books-papers-materials-for-gr...) with a PDF of Nielson & Nielson's Semantics with Applications (http://www.daimi.au.dk/~bra8130/Wiley_book/wiley.pdf). That looks good, too.

It sounds like I'm used to reading operational semantics, but have usually seen them specified in S-Expressions (as mini-interpreters in Scheme).
From corporate design to startup design: A love story
Not to pile on, but the article also seems to somehow assume that passion and diligent practice/training/hard work are mutually exclusive
It's not a conspiracy if they're right in the open about it. They're praising a platform that does not exist yet, and what do you know, they have an app that will be available (for $$$) at launch.

I don't mean to imply it some Big Evil Conspiracy. NYTimes is a business like any other and they need to make money. NYT has a vested interest in the iPad's success.
Obviously this is the current solution. I was pointing out that laptop manufacturers could remove the need for fiddling with your power connection by automatically disconnecting the computer from the battery when it is not needed.
Yes, thats what I was thinking when I wrote the final sentence. The vibration method is simpler - but this way has many more uses and can be expanded. Great work either way!
Why Indians love outsourcing (okay freelancing)?
Can't find any more information. The link at the bottom of the homepage takes you to the FAQs and a hashtag with seemingly nothing there.
Is the Obesity Epidemic for Real?
Anyone that has worked at a place like this knows it's just a giant PR stunt. The colorful gizmos, novelty workspaces were more of an annoying than fun, and nobody used them unless there were journalists around.

I'd rather have some nice outdoor space than a zany gondola any day.
Look at the 12/14/2009 interview summary (an interview is where the patent applicants talk to the examiner), and in particular the third page.
Erlang, too, has a core language which is pretty concise. I haven't seen a formal specification of its semantics, though.

FWIW, I found that Erlang made quite a bit more sense after I spent some time with Prolog. Erlang started out as a DSL built on SICStus Prolog, and a lot of its design decisions carried over from there.
Somehow, When it comes to this subject I tend to trust someone working on battery technology at Lawrence Berkeley more than I do a webapp developer.
Summer ice melts have generally been setting records year after year, both in the northern and southern hemisphere.

So, uncertain, but probably more on the "supervolcano" end of your spectrum there.

Experiment: Fill a glass with ice water. Take the temp. 32 degrees or so. Drop a thimble full of boiling water in, some of the ice will melt. Take the temp. Still 32 degrees. Repeat. What happens when we're out of ice? (Situation is slightly different for a planet as opposed to a glass but the fundamentals still apply)
And if someone is not satisfied with Apple's mobile product and policies related to same they can go ahead and build their own phone OS, as Google is doing with Android and MS is doing with whatever dumb name they have for their phone platform this week. Anyone can have access to the part of the mobile space that the iPhone OS "conquered." It is hard, but possible.

Apple is a gatekeeper to their platform, as those other companies mentioned are gatekeepers to their own platforms...as Adobe is a gatekeeper to their own platform. It is not impossible to bypass any of them. If Apple decides that they don't want you pissing in the shallow end of their pool they can ask you to leave; you can go swim in someone else's pond or you can get yourself a shovel and start digging your own, but there is no monopoly involved here at all.
I think this is way off the mark. Professional (and I do believe pg has a good essay on this) suggests standard approaches to problems and suits and such. Passion about programming is what drives a programmer to solve that last bit of the problem at 2 am. These are the people that you want on your team.

On the other hand, if you are building an enterprise software organization, you are more likely to look for a suit and tie than passion in a programmer.

To answer the question What does it take to be a good programmer? I would say that first the passion or drive required to work on a problem that seems impossible in an environment where 50% of the time 80% of the stuff is broken.
This sounds very much like it can apply to twitter.

@foobar said cool. <reply button> <retweet button>

That's an activity that can be public or only be viewed by your friends. People can participate by doing the same activity (retweeting or replying).

This also applies to google buzz, myspace, hi5, github comments, linkedin and tons of other services. It looks like the OP should re-read the patent.
Well, if a super volcano erupted, then we wouldn't really need to worry about global warming.
'I was trying to find the "reply" button on my Gmail interface'
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/5558/am-i-allowed-to...
There will come a time where it's pointless for some humans to work because everything they do machines can do better.
I would add parts of alphabet city to that list. I can get from C ave to work on 8th ave in 30 minutes by bus, 15-20 by train. 1BR rent is $1650. Harlem is also gentrified and will run a little north of $1200. Express A train from 145th takes 30 minutes.
Stop delegating. What you can learn from Joe DePinto, CEO of 7-eleven
Well, it's still more battery life than a small battery that never charges to 100%, right? I think regardless of the battery size, you can make the decision to preserve the long-term life of your battery or have the extra capacity in the short-term.

Plus, charging from 20 to 80% is much faster than charging from 20 to 100% (I estimate that about half of the time is spent just going from 80 to 100).
i think most of that has been summarized at http://ha.ckers.org/xss.html
The problem with the Global Warming debate is the fact that there's so much ignorance on BOTH sides.

For example, One Iceberg in itself doesn't prove anything because the temperature in one isolated area can vary regardless of the overall global temperature. So you insinuating this is proof of AGW is the equivalent of a Conservative saying Global Warming doesn't exist because it's been the coldest winter on record in the north east.

The only thing that can prove or disprove the hypothesis of AGW conclusively is good research and that's why Phil Jones' behavior was so damaging.
Maybe game designers should take lessons from Skype in making it as hard as possible to disassemble/hack the binary.