skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic, but I suggest you add some 'about' page to your website.

After clicking around for a couple of minutes the only thing I learned about it was that it has something to do with Songbird (which google tells me is a media player).
Git bisect is a binary search. You tell it what the last known good revision is, and then it'll perform a binary search for you between that revision and the latest revision. In each step of the binary search Git will ask you whether the current revision is good or bad, and in about O(log N) steps you'll know which exact revision introduced the regression.

> (You may be surprised that Git leaves them around from previous versions)

Git leaves directories around only if they contain files that are not checked in version control.
CK Prahalad Passed Away: Unconfirmed Dead Rumor?
Somebody's confusing design ability with coding ability.
Does it count if someone makes something that does the same job at a quarter of the price, so that if you flex it too much, or run it over with your car, or leave it on the bus then you can replace it and still be saving half the price?

Or are we forced to accept Apple's business model as a given, just like Microsoft fought against the netbook pricing model because it began to make their OS pricing look ridiculous?
Apple in advance discussions to adopt AMD chips
I don't have an arrow key on my phone, why not make it advance upon click?
The fact that most Mac users don't use many apps on their laptop, beyond what's built in, and what they do use is probably free is the one thing that makes me think the app store bubble will blow over.
So with your system, how do you view the changes between one version and another? It's possible to view changes within a single file with diff, but what if you want to see the entire set of changes, e.g. in look for a regression?

What if you're working on an experimental feature that makes your program unstable while it's still being developed, and the feature spans multiple files? If you decide later on that the feature is useless, do you modify each of those files to remove all the #ifdefs? I make a temporary branch for this and delete the branch if I decide it's a failure.
Where Have All the Hackers Gone?
The only thing I learned from this is that if you won a pulitzer prize for your satire you can resubmit your satire app. Just like if you're Sports Illustrated you can have an app with girls in bikinis.

It's just ugly to watch this hypocrisy. I don't plan on using iPhones anymore, or getting an iPad and maybe that means I miss out on really great phone and what looks like an amazing tablet, but at least I'm not a part of this long haul of an trip down Steve Job's ego. The thing is, I don't think Jobs thinks that he's doing anything but the right thing, protecting his app store from junk, and that's admirable in weird sort of way. It's just such a pain to hear about this ordeal day in and day out, for what like a year or two now, and just the parade of bad Apple news doesn't stop. I don't blame the tech blogs for reporting on it, I don't blame users for buying Apple's incredibly amazing devices. You know who I blame? Apple's competition for a complete inability to make decent shit that is at least in some alternate universe comparable in quality to what Apple produces, minus a crazy genius' ego. But I guess I don't live in that world. I guess in this world there's only one company capable of making good computers, and it just happens to come with a shit load of baggage.
Ddotdash: a mobile morse keyboard
Better wound treatment for all: 'negative-pressure' wound therapy
It's a tech demo designed for Chrome — a pretty reasonable compromise given it's supposed to show what's coming up in browsers and requires Chrome be invoked with various command line flags to demo all the features.
So, git/hg/etc are doorknobs ?

Of course not, it's not their problem. What annoys me is that the "You must use DVCS" memo is being sent around uncritically, and anyone who does not fit the use case is left out.

I think that people who deal with images/spreadsheets/data would also benefit from a good VCS tool. If the coders, having scratched their itch, did not declare the problem solved and move on ...

P.S. thanks for the polite answer. So, there is either no problem or no solution ... I think we're done here.
Sounds to me like her muscle atrophy was preceded by a long period of intense pain due to one or more herniated discs. A proper course of treatment would have included pain killers and muscle relaxants simply to get her to the point where there was less spasm. Then she could have done physical therapy to build up her strength.

The Chiropractors here are the most to blame -- they took a bad situation and made it much, much worse. Note that the last guy in the UK who called them out for quackery spent years fighting a libel suit.
MVC - it's the routing stupid
Of course it's an exponential scale. Otherwise Facebook and Google would be 10, Twitter and major corporate sites would be 2 and the rest of us would all be 0.
England. They beat you in the last war.
All the hackers are busy trying to use iPhone jailbreak tools to gain root access on a MacBook. They are very confused and so am I.
This is a demo of what's at the bleeding edge. To complain that it's not implemented across all browsers with graceful degradation is to be frank, silly.
As a fellow hacker, I would like to welcome you to check out the apps I have been working on iFreeTools :: http://crm.ifreetools.com (alpha) and http://creator.ifreetools.com (preview release).

The apps are ad-supported and free, but not open-source. You can export you data at any time (and also use that feature as a off-line backup).

While the CRM app includes the core modules, with more in the works, you can extend or build your own apps with Creator, like this simple bug-tracker :
http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/03/building-simple-bug-t...

Ad-free version will be coming a bit later. Paid & customized deployments over your own Google App Engine instance is also possible.

If the apps are not yet up to your requirements, feel free to tell me what it lacks and what feature(s) you would like to see added soon.
Still, that's a really terrible user interface. Engineers at least can create something of the quality of GNU's site or the Linux Kernel site. And the markup on those early Zuckerman pages has mix-matched casing. Looks like a copy paste job.
... Gruber justifies them?
Apple's competition for a complete inability to make decent shit that is at least in some alternate universe comparable in quality to what Apple produces, minus a crazy genius' ego.

If you want this, lobby for patent reform.
git/hg/etc are not doorknobs. My simile was comparing you, and people like you, to doorknobs. http://www.google.com/search?q=dumber+than+a+doorknob

No version control system, centralized or distributed, actually handles blobs better than just treating them as artifacts and using rsync.

The only way to actually solve the problem is to make the data not be blobs anymore, where the diff/merge/serialization code all understands at least the structural container format and can render it usefully. There's never going to be a general purpose tool that does that outside of a live-in smalltalk image (or similar).

The best you're going to get is tools vertically-integrated with the application, and all the ones I've seen to date (MS Office, Adobe Version Cue, etc.) all do a terrible job of even doing diffs/RCS, much less actually implementing a real VCS.
I think these are still intensely private affairs.
People are very task oriented. They want their tools to work quickly and effectively. They don't spend much time thinking about how the tool works so I don't think it's possible for software to be too quick. It opens the door to your customers feeling like they're not getting the optimal value out of their hardware over what would basically be a marketing gimmick. It also leaves your venerable to your competition who can simply offer a faster alternative which has the coat tails of representing their software as being more efficient, better designed and sold by a company with better programmers & management. On a slightly different topic I do think it's possible for GUIs to poorly represent a fast application is working correctly. The first h264 video encode I did on an octo-core machine left me with that feeling. I was sure something had gone wrong. It was too fast. Once I realized everything went well I was delighted of course.
i fell asleep
There are a large number of people that would dive head-first into a startup if it sparked their interest. I know I've been itching to join another one, so I've been bootstrapping a couple of ideas at once, seeing which one ends up getting better initial feedback (I've even scrapped one because after an elevator pitch I had a potential user go "So it's like X but better?" and I had the realization of "oh man this idea really does suck"). I've tossed a resume here and there, too, for interesting startups hiring the first couple of folks.
How the Internet will change the world
How to Write  Funny Essay
When we imagine the teacher or the examiner laughing at our essays, it is not a nice picture. Unless, of course, that from the start we have decided to write a funny essay, intended specifically to be as hilarious as possible. Sounds easy, right? Wrong! Actually, writing funny essays is quite a challenge.
Doing is how people learn in this field. I'm sure there are some real doosies in the way-back machine by me.
would appreciate your thoughts on Invoice Bubble which is my app. It's not free, but it does have SSL security, PDF attaching, client management and stuff like that - but really simple and only $5.
https://invoicebubble.com
No worries at all! Saw your tweet after I posted here. Thanks!
Regression Discontinuity Analysis of Angel Investment
That analogy is perhaps uncomfortably apt, considering how soundly Webkit is beating Gecko on every front except for self-aggrandizing wankery over hypothetical freedom. The only active non-XUL Gecko application is Camino, the rest died several years ago or switched to webkit, and Camino's been threatening to do one of those too.

GCC was architected by Stallman to be intentionally inextensible, as a means of enforcing their interpretation of the GPL through technical means, by denying access to intermediate representations. That policy has been at least partially reverted 20 years later with the release of 4.5 on Wednesday with some plugin support, now that the LLVM projects are about to eat their lunch.
yeah, i thought the same thing. it must have been an error on the part of the author.

here it is in the CSS2.1 spec -- http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop

it looks like it was introduced in CSS 2.1 because it is missing in CSS2 and CSS1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/visuren.html#dis... http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1/#display
> the school's servers, the IT staff and the administrators could all be considered to be part of a child pornography network

No, please lets not go to that silly place.

It detracts from the real child pornography issues.

We don't need CP laws to convict these people of a crime; the crime they have actually committed.

If the administrator was taking pictures of them nude or in sexual positions and then storing them; i.e. with the intent of viewing them sexually, then nail him.

But otherwise this is well covered by voyeurism law. A much more appropriate charge.
I have a friend who's a professional engineer at a local studio and after working on some filler for some vocalists (simple drum/guitar parts quickly banged out so they had something to listen to while recording), I got to hang around and see famous musician X's sibling attempt to record vocal tracks. They were so awful that musician X had to sing along so the vocalist could hear it in the monitor to get close enough to the pitch so the auto tuner could make something that didn't sound like a robot. After seeing that, I am no longer surprised at the state of any recent music recordings or compositions. I first noticed the massive over-use of compression in the mid-90's, and it's only gotten worse since then.
This is why program trading code is such a closely guarded secret, any why this was such a big deal http://blogs.reuters.com/archive/tag/sergey-aleynikov/
I'm fairly sure I've mentioned it with respect to the high school webcam controversy before, but I think it bears repeating: read Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. I can't say much about it that wikipedia doesn't without giving things away, but I assure you that you won't be disappointed; way too relevant...
I think HTC is the closest thing to a credible competitor for Apple in the smart phone business. Their phones are incredibly well built, and Sense UI looks quite good and is improving.

I was rooting for Palm, but it looks like they are unable to deliver phones in Sweden.

In my dream world I'd get a HTC built phone using the webOS GUI paradigm, but with the OS and applications written in a language which compiles to native code instead of JavaScript.
Goldman Sachs Comments on SEC Complaint
They're still there, and they're always there. Consumer devices are always available since the age of tinkering is easier.

Tinkering people don't represent the majority of device users. If they want to learn and tinker, there are ways (e.g. Linux).
Seriously, how is it possible that anyone finds interesting a page written by Zuckerberg when he was 16? What possible interest could this have to anyone?
So what. Copy-paste and modification is a totally cool way to learn and do. That's the reason why web technologies spread so fast: it was easy to see how a web page was done, copy it and do some modifications.
Does anyone have a reference on the slow fragment shader they ran into? I've not done much with the OpenGL ES hardware out there, but even the lowest end desktop GPU can handle such things without blinking. I wonder if it's a driver issue more so than a hardware capability issue.
Dude, he was 16.

We live in an age of record. Thanks in no small part to Zuckerberg himself, the next great wave of software engineers and entrepreneurs who we admire, respect, and study will have surely done something stupid on the internet. Or maybe they made an ugly website. People learning make mistakes. They produce shoddy work. But doing work is how you learn.

We should encourage aspiring hackers to launch their careers early, collect feedback, and iterate on themselves... even if that means someone is going to mock them for trying.
That's for sure. It reminds me when I did my first website on Angelfire (which coincidentally was also at age 16). At the time I thought it was the best thing I've ever made, now I look back and realize how hideous it is. I'm feeling nostalgic. :(
People are interested in the past of famous or otherwise notable people. This is a little part of his; a little creation before his big creation. Why is that surprising?
Yeah, blip.tv is a really nice service. There are also download links for offline consumption. That's great for those of us who don't like Flash but are using a browser that lacks H.264 support.

RethinkDB:s blog only links to the YouTube version of this presentation, so thanks mace for providing this alternative link.
Isn't this 'personal app' problem he's complaining about just a hack to get around the fact that you need to buy a Mac and pay $99 per annum to put a basic app on your phone?

I'm impressed that someone out there has amortised that cost across multiple similar simple apps, and if that litters the app store then maybe that should be taken as a sign.

Any link to who is providing this service?
Question: why does that baggage matter to you (as a user)?

Apple makes good products. What do those products do? They enable people (i.e.: you and me) to do great stuff, without getting in the way. Stuff like programming and writing and designing.

An Apple product - to the average end-user - is an abstraction layer to all those other things. If the abstraction layer works, use it. If it doesn't, don't. Baggage has nothing to do with it.
Sorry, but if you knew what you are talking about, you would not call a parser with callbacks a compiler with VM. Maybe SAX parsers are also compilers and run some VM?
What does parsed CSS selector compile to? Where is that VM and what does it run? Bytecode?

Sizzle is just a parser what parses given selector into parts, gets matchin DOM elements, filters them and returns what matches. There is no compilation or virtual machines involved, just some string parsing, callbacks and DOM API.
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1269785

Much discussion there already.
Even as a developer, I realize that political satire is far more important to the mobile platform ecosystem than a choice of language (e.g. 3.3.1). I'm glad that Jobs (and therefore Apple) realize that something needs to be "fixed" with the process that banned Fiore's app.
Very interesting.

Direct link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB2000142405274870445400457513...
VideoSong is a new webtrend, but this is an Anti-VideoSong
Right, I wasn't trying to take anything away from the guy. He's obviously a very successful individual. I know I've created some terrible stuff.
Too bad that navigation model chosen does not allow to browse the presentation on iPhone/iPad. Many of those advanced features (session/local/web SQL DB storage, geolocation, CSS transforms/transitions/animations, offline web apps) are supported in Mobile Safari—in fact some appeared there first.
Because it shows up on HN more than once a day. Because I use Apple products. Because I create apps. This Satire app rejection made the New York Times It's no longer just an Arrington rant anymore.
His example is a poor one. The phone system was far from open and the hacking that Woz was doing against it was very much illegal.

Instead, the availability of these types of devices (iPhone, Smartphones) has increased the level of technical knowledge in every day society. For example, there are more people that know how to jailbreak an iPhone than there are hackers. For some non-technical people, this very technical process has become something commonplace.

The reports from DARPA and the US Air Force are suspect in their relevance to this discussion. There are several factors that could weigh upon their low projections: military recruitment rate is down in the US and there is general displeasure with the government.

Also, computer science has become ubiquitous in several fields. For example, all of the majors at my engineering university are required to take some form of computer science. Creating tools and solving problems with software has become an everyday part of any engineers' tool belt. Perhaps the hackers are migrating to domain specific areas?

And, finally, that doesn't mean we should be complacent. It is still (and always will be) our charge to engage younger generations in the fulfillment and excitement that comes from solving tough problems.
40 Beautiful Rainbow Based Website Designs
Yes, absolutely, you wouldn't want everyone to keep pulling all data, git-style. The programmers usually only need the assets in the game-ready format, not the source models, textures, etc. which are typically much larger, and only needed by the artists/level designers working with them.
HTML5 was started by WHATWG which stands for Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group. A lot of work shown there is under umbrella of "Web Applications 1.0", see
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_are_the_various_version...
A really interesting point at about 37 minutes in, where they say that drives could end up executing code just like graphics cards do now.

That could really speed things up. You wouldn't have all the latency of doing multiple reads on the device to find a file. Normally the CPU would have interrupt raised for each return of the read but with this it could just request a file and get the return in one go.
IBM:s ThinkPads seems really sturdy. But has the quality been maintained since Lenovo bought the ThinkPad brand?
Some niggling little thing in the back of my mind is saying human remains are one of the few things explicitly prohibited by the US Postal Service.
'Hideous' is a rather relative in the context of the geocities/angelfire web era. I don't even think things like 'good web design' really crossed my mind. At least not in the way that you see those "top n ways how to code a modern website" type of articles. The web in general was a giant novelty, so all my friends and I really cared about was how cool something looked on the screen.
This was pretty interesting, I must say. It is nice that they got into the nitty gritty technical details.
He didn't mention the process. It sounds like he is talking about this individual case.
The best HTML5 introduction I've seen so far. Very nice! This just gets me even more excited about the future of web apps.
I think breach in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall in GS is responsible for the subprime crisis
I'm with you! With the caveat that your form needs to be spot on to avoid injury. There are other benefits to resistance training as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/health/06real.html?src=sch
M-classification (a treatise on intelligence)
Good lord, I'm an idiot. I was about to close the browser until I saw your comment :)
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Web Design Techniques
There are many ways to make a web design such as; CSS, HTML, JAVA, CGI etc. However it depends on the content of a brand that which language (programming language such as CSS or JAVA) will suit it.
Presumably this functionality is only available to users of certain vintage keyboards: http://www.9999hp.net/keyboard/temp/1397003-big.jpg
And open-source software that's easy to use as the "pro" tools that are used.
I don't think forcing people to upgrade is the big factor in not supporting multitasking on the 3G - its got a lot todo with creating a consistant experience and not spending money it would take to support multitasking on hardware they don't even sell anymore.
I don't think any one approach is right or wrong, but for me Facebook+Twitter drive 3-4x more traffic to my site than Google. Getting good google "juice" is important, but not as important as it was a few years ago.
* waves *

(Currently stranded in Akihabara by an angry Icelandic volcano god ...)
The goal is to put humans on Mars (and every other place). We must focus on what we need to learn to make that happen. Asteroids and the Moon seem good steps in that direction.
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"

Granted FB's first homepage was ugly, but as other have commented solid engineering != good design skills. We've all been there. ;)
What vintage? I remember seeing that Lenovo added a "roll cage" to the Thinkpad line that supposedly allows it to be run over by a car.

I found a 1990s Thinkpad in my desk at work. It's makes for an excellent step ladder.
tired claptrap.
Sony did in fact earn some nerdrage when they disabled linux mode, and therefore indie games.

Games consoles have only recently become viable for anything other than games and they're still not quite there yet. I do think their closed nature will be a problem in the future.
GCC was architected by Stallman to be intentionally inextensible, as a means of enforcing their interpretation of the GPL through technical means

Yeah, Stallman hates extensible software. Look at Emacs, for example. That thing can't do anything Stallman didn't originally intend.

Try again.
1. Get flash working on every mobile OS other than iPhone

2. Transition flash creationg tools to HTML5 creation tools

voila - relevance
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