skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On contrary, "we" want nothing of the sort. Maybe those too young to remember the advances made from IE4 through IE6, those may not understand how Microsoft set up how you and I use the web today. You seem to be missing the point. It's not Microsoft's job to make GMail work on your phone or linux; _however_, Microsoft's pushing the buck (even if proprietary) did push the browser market forward leaps and bounds. GMail hinges heavily on a little technology we know as XMLHTTP. Take a guess who championed the tech; take a guess how long before standards zealots published a specification draft. (MS '99; W3C '06)

Redmond has been sleeping, no doubt. But that is neither here nor there. It's refreshing to see other browser teams giving the IE team a run for their money and whipping them into shape -- they've been needing that for almost 10 years, finally getting them off their laurels. Competition is the best part of the space, and that should include innovative APIs (not yet standard) that us engineers can exploit to make our applications better, faster, or stronger. I'm certainly not going to wait for some standards committee to deliberate for 8 years over some monolithic spec that every browser will get wrong anyhow, as history has shown.
Eken M001, 7" Android tablet for $100
It depends on what you want to do with it. For a basic cert for a web site GoDaddy is fine but remember to generate a CRS with of 2048bit (http://help.godaddy.com/article/5619) at least and not the older default of 1024 since some newer mobile devices will not like that. If you want it to work on ALL mobile devices you may have issues with GoDaddy anyway. Something about the chain of trust - it's been a while.

I would recommend you do your homework by checking out GeoTrust (here is a kb article from them http://bit.ly/9HMsqp) - If you are unsure, call them. If anyone has worked with ActiveSync and mobile devices perhaps you can remind me of some of the other issues.
Adult Hide 'n' Go Seek Goes Mainstream
I think that sums up my feeling on the Flash v HTML5 arguments - if all you are doing is moving a div from A to B, CSS3/HTML5 is for you. If your actually doing some motion graphics that need fine grained control and high production values you aren't going to be moving away from Flash any time soon.
Gifted kids see advanced school programs cut
Interesting article. Over time most of lisps features (generic functions, garbage collection) have been ported over to other languages save two - syntactic abstraction and metaobject protocols. On syntactic abstraction there seems to be genuine difference in opinion between lisp (scheme) and other languages. Lisp is on the side of allowing programmers to invent their own syntactic abstractions hence making their programs shorter and at times more understandable. Other languages have largely been unwilling to make that leap of faith because syntactic abstractions dont scale up with the number of programmers. They also make it harder to reason about the correctness of programs and make tools like profilers, debuggers, code steppers. So this continues to remain a genuine point of difference which means the lisp programs will continue to have the whizbang sleek look which other languages will find hard to emulate. On the other hands lisp programmers will continue to look in envy at the development tools of other "less featureful" languages.
You are correct. There's more to the universe than we can see, but what we can't see should be basically the same as what we can. By analogy, from any place on the earth, you can only see as far as the horizon[1]. If you were to teleport (or travel) to the edge of your horizon, you would see more earth that you couldn't see before, but that new stuff would basically be similar to the earth you're seeing now.

Just for kicks, let's add in that the earth is expanding like the universe. You're at point A, there's a tree at point B, and the horizon past the tree in that direction is point C. If the earth is expanding, then point B will be receding from both point A and point C, in part because point C is receding twice as fast.

[1] The reason for the boundary of the observable earth is totally different, but that doesn't change the point.
Why do people feel compelled to make websites with microscopic font sizes?

edit: apparently it's a splog so that answers that.
> I'm not sure if this is an option for LoL given that it's often 5v5 ... and a team is often comprised of one small premade and a few randoms, or 2 smaller premades.

Wouldn't the matching algorithm be calculating ratings for each distinct premade, regardless of whether it's a complete team?

So whether [You+Chad] are playing 3v3 with a pug, or 5v5 with any variant of three PUG+pre-made players, shouldn't you always be working on the [You+Chad] rating?
You can buy it for $130 plus free shipping at: http://www.pandawill.com/mini-ipad-notebook-7-inch-wifi-grav...

It comes with Android 1.6 but there's a comment on the above website saying it can be upgraded. You can also find it for less than $100 on sites like alibaba.com and dhgate.com but you will have to buy more than one unit.
Right click on Outlook status bar icon and uncheck "Hide When Minimized".

OK, now I see what you meant when you said, 'Trust me you won't miss it.'. Yeah, I can see your point but I do miss it, but it's still an improvement :)

* What that in original state (i.e. Show when minimized) and I minimise, the app stays at the top of the MRU stack.

* When that is on, and I minimise, the app disappears out of my alt+tab order altogether.
This guy is neither an economist nor a lawyer, why should I listen to him?
Ctrl + is your friend. Also you can set minimum font size on most browsers.
Yes, there is no contest -- Starcraft is by far the better game. Everything about it is better.

The other difference is Koreans. They rule at SC.
How is this comparable to fathomdb in terms of what it provides on a business level. (not how i.e. fathomdb leverages 'the cloud' where as this seems to be using specialized hardware?)
Congresscritters used derivatives to profit from economic collapse
That would be great - pgroverman@tapinko.com - wanna make an intro?
The games are World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, Penumbra Overture

edit: removed some incorrect info
Readability bookmarklet might help http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Chrysler split over which CAD software to use
In fact, the MS v. DOJ case paved the way for heavy, government regulation in an industry that was relatively free of government. (Re: http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v21n2/friedman.html)
"GeoTrust actually owns RapidSSL (http://www.rapidssl.com/ssl-certificate-about/index.htm). NameCheap is reselling those RapidSSL branded certificates for less than RapidSSL.com is selling them. RapidSSL.com is, in turn, selling certificates for less than GeoTrust. And they're all signed by the Equifax root certificate!"

Crazy! I'm glad I asked here first.
Why Women Don't Get VC Money
Someone should really make a study for this market. Also you have to take in consideration that porn involves actors, and they require payment (I'm not talking about user content distribution).
> Jungian collective unconscious: we all seem to have the same idea of time

No, but perhaps we are taught the same idea from childhood.

Actually believe there is a tribe where the notion of time does not exist, and their language reflects that. Some linguistic expert found that all his language theories failed w.r.t their language.

Just as an aside, for a ray of light, there is no time. Its always now.
Make sure you check out how to import it so that you won't end up paying a large amount of duty if you order stuff like this from abroad.
I started taking a James Bond shower 6 months ago and have not caught any cold since then - http://artofmanliness.com/2010/01/18/the-james-bond-shower-a...
Doesn't every business try to predict the future?
How a Digital Camera Works
EFF and Child's Play are actually charities that your payment is split with.
OBLIG

"Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

- Philip Greenspun

"Including Common Lisp."

- Robert Morris

"We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."

- Guy Steele, Java spec co-author
So you'd have no problem if a virus could physically incapacitate your keyboard, monitor, speakers, CPU and motherboard?...

In fact, back in the day it was possible to damage your keyboard through software. That must have been fun. Not.
Allowing startups to infringe patents
Glad you like it. Thanks for the info.
In Gnome, all windows can be resized.
Well reasoned for the most part, but Lisp has occupied the high ground for development tools for a long time (REPL, SLIME, trace/untrace, step, describe/inspect, room, macroexpand). Other languages have been playing catch up in this regard as well. Whether Lisp still occupies the high ground today is unclear, but it is erroneous to say that Lisp programmers envy the development tools of other languages.
Don't use whois masking services, it effectively gives a third party ownership of the domain in question and most certainly does violate the ICANN rules about truthful and accurate registration information.
You're thinking about it a little bit backwards. Don't let the fear of giving up 3% stop you from focusing on the 97% you do get! :)
you're right, i was just copying the bar across, my bad
It's worth reading the relevant section. On the surface, at least, it's written in terms of end-user privacy. It's not clear whether iAd will play by the same rules.

3.3.9 The following requirements apply to You and Your Application’s use, collection, processing, maintenance, uploading, syncing, storage, transmission, sharing and disclosure of User Data:

- All use of User Data collected or obtained through an Application must be limited to the same purpose as necessary to provide services or functionality for such Application. For example, the use of User Data collected on and used in a social networking Application could be used for the same purpose on the website version of that Application; however, the use of location-based User Data for enabling targeted advertising in an Application is prohibited unless targeted advertising is the purpose of such Application (e.g., a geo-location coupon application).

- You may only provide or disclose User Data to third parties as necessary for providing services or functionality for the Application that collected the User Data, and then only if You receive express user consent. For example, if Your Application would like to post a message from a user to a third party social networking site, then You may only share the message if the user has explicitly indicated an intention to share it by clicking or selecting a button or checking a box that clearly explains how the message will be shared.

- Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, Device Data may not be provided or disclosed to a third party without Apple’s prior written consent. Accordingly, the use of third party software in Your Application to collect and send Device Data to a third party for processing or analysis is expressly prohibited.

- You must provide information to users regarding Your use and/or Transmission of User Data and explain how Your Application will use User Data, e.g., by providing information in the App Store marketing text that accompanies Your Application on the App Store, by adding an About box within Your Application, or by adding a link to Your privacy policy on Your website.

- You and the Application must take appropriate steps to protect any User Data from unauthorized disclosure or access. If a user ceases to consent to Your use and/or Transmission of User Data, You must promptly cease all such use and/or Transmission and destroy any such information from Your records (except to the limited extent necessary for Your Application back-ups and record-keeping or as otherwise prohibited by law).
I have been trying to understand the problem with syntactic abstraction in other languages -- or creating your own languages to fit the problem. Is it a real issue? or is the problem with it just same problem people have with any unfamiliar codebase where the developers made unclear or poor abstractions?

To clarify what I mean, I have presented lisp ideas to fellow coworkers and met with resistance along two lines:

(1) They want to understand what is really going on, and the abstraction can obscure that. This sounds to me like a general abstraction problem more than an issue with syntactic abstraction... and really, it seems like a problem with understanding how someone chose to abstract things. They want to look underneath the hood for answers.

(2) They suggest that new developers will have a hard time understanding and adding to the system. But new developers for any project have to learn the local language anyway. It may look like C++, python, or whatever, but it the framework other developers developed always has its own learning curve.

Surely syntactic abstraction is just another abstraction tool that can be used to help make those frameworks easier to dive into. There is always poor code and poor documentation; this is not an excuse not to declare functions or other pretty approaches. Why is it any scarier to use this tool than to use someone's library?
Hydrogen vehicles: Fuel of the future?
I like this model. Surely the developers behind these games are going to get some new fans and customers.

As an anecdote, I played World of Goo at a friend's once. He copied it on my USB stick and I played more at home. A few months later there was a "pay what you want" promotion for just World of Goo. I bought it to support the developers, even though I had already finished the game and there was nothing new to play with. It's a great game and I recommend it for a few hours of fun.
It worked pretty much most of the time in Chrome for me. There were a couple of demos that didn't work.

But this thing looks really nice. I love the website design, as well.
Are Desktop Applications Dying?
The following link has some good disscussion that is relevant to your scenario: http://www.marketingprofs.com/ea/qst_question.asp?qstID=2003...

Also I remember seeing a variety of "homemade" fare being pitched on Dragon's Den (Canadian version) in the past. You might consider trying to track down videos of these pitches as there may be relevant info regarding the marketing steps the entrepreneur has taken and what the Dragons suggest. For example there was an episode about "Ebesse Zozo Hot Sauce": http://www.cbc.ca/dragonsden/pitches/ebessezozo.html

I wasn't able in the short amount of time that I looked to track down a copy of that episode.

Interestingly (given comments below about a video) there's a video of a kid drinking Ebesse Zozo Hot Sauce .. not very entertaining mind you and only 435 views: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8wcn7xHA4

There's also info here about Denzel's Hotsauce: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Denzels-Hotsauce/37098955726

Reading through the wall posts should act as a great source of ideas for the various methods this person is using to market their hotsauce.
TED Blog: How great leaders inspire action: Simon Sinek on TED.com
Agreed. A kid can play with a roly-poly he found on the ground and that's a game.

Anyway, not sure why this discussion needs to be whether we consider this a "serious" game or not. I think it's a fantastic idea, and its execution will determine how fun it is to play.
Don’t Just Build a Brand, Build a Community
CPUs are probably the best examples of hardware that will protect itself from abuse. They already have a lot of power management circuitry to help battery life, and they have built-in thermal monitoring that will reduce voltage and clockspeed to prevent overheating. This is even used as a selling point on recent processors: "Turbo mode" means the processor is self-overclocking to within it's specified TDP.
If you had to wait until your employees actually had the balls to tell the owner of the company that they smelled, you probably waited too long.
To quote the license clause:

NO COPYRIGHTS OR LICENSES. DO WHAT YOU LIKE.
This is the new jQuery Tools license.

Copyrights and patents are evil. They block the natural progress of development. We all know it: if people start sharing instead of owning the world would be a better place. Today money is king. This results in closed systems and poor quality and in many cases people are even seriously exploited. For businessmen nothing is enough.

That's a pretty strong statement.
Why the extreme focus on lines of code?

That's not the best metric to begin with (I used to think so too, but someone here pointed out that gzipped source is already much better), and besides that, there are other ways of looking at it besides 'size', such as readability.
It may be easier to just conceptualize it as a singularity that was always existing and always exploding in a single, simultaneous moment of time.

Then again maybe not... :)
How is this relevant? It is my hardware, I can do whatever I want with it.
Prolog also has syntactic abstractions, though it doesn't have a culture that uses them to the same extent because (overgeneralizing a bit) every expression is quoted by default, and it also has extremely powerful pattern-matching. That (or good support for lazy evaluation, in other languages) covers many of the same use cases as Lisp-style macros.

Also, K has a "whizbang sleek look" that makes Lisp look ridiculously verbose. (http://www.nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm) Ditto J and APL, though K seems to take it furthest. Part of their density comes from being based on ideograms, not lexical tokens; the density is like comparing Chinese to English.

Unfortunately, K is closed source and limited to 32-bit platforms for non-commercial evaluation. It's also quite expensive, since its primary product is a mind-bogglingly fast database designed for real-time stock data analysis. I'm been fascinated with K for a while, though, albeit mostly at a distance. (J's evaluation isn't limited to noncommercial use, though.)
Good point about slime (its my development environment of choice). Lisp tools are built for dynamic development from the ground up, so on that aspect they are very good. However finding a lisp source stepper that works has been an exercise in frustration for me. The best one ive found so far has been the PLT scheme stepper that mostly works.
Indeed, if the system is really elo based then updates should be basically instant. A cron job is only required for rankings in which everyone scores relative to eachother.
GUT is unlikely IMHO
I dont particularly agree, css3 was I am pretty sure never designed for animating cartoons.

svg animation / html5 video or canvas however, are well suited to do a lot of the things currently done in flash.
How would you like it if a virus could flash your BIOS and render your motherboard unusable? It's happened before, and that's why most motherboards now either have their BIOS chips in sockets (so that the manufacturer can mail you a replacement) or have a back-up BIOS chip that you can switch to only with a jumper.
Business of Software 2010 Speakers Announced
With regard to development tools, maybe he was referring to libraries and community support.

Perl, a slow language criticized for its syntax and bearing the stigma of being a mere scripting language, is often lauded as having huge community support and tons of helpful (even if often crappy) libraries via CPAN. C++ has similar support (no CPAN that I am aware of, but I have always quickly found solutions and libraries with the search engine).

Granted, CL can connect via U/CFFI to any external library, but it is harder to find the wrappers for CL than C/C++ header files.
The problem statement link seem dead. I believe this is it:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/papers/lisp-java/instructions.htm...

Also, the article seems to be a duplicate of this one:

http://antigreen.org/vadim/ProgLanguageComparison/lisp-cmp-w...

Is it a splog? The date on the antigreen.org version is August 2002.
> is there any reason I shouldn't just use a $30 per year SSL cert from GoDaddy?

GoDaddy uses an intermediate certificate which means you need to install, not just your cert, but also all of the certs back to the root. It's a minor annoyance, except for the fact that they don't tell you about it until after you buy the cert.
At my current location in Europe, low cost items usually pass through customs without a lot of extra tax, although sometimes it comes down to luck. Should be 20%-25% total if they decide to tax it.

On a sidenote, the seller I linked to is flexible about what price they stick on your package. You don't want to overdo it though, otherwise you might end up paying even more tax than normal.
Thanks for pointing K out, hadnt seen it so far.
I don't think much of your headline. Here's the original WSJ story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870387190457521...

tl;dr 13 members of Congress, from both parties, traded in the market or had their spouses trade. Some did so via managed funds, a few on their own account. One Republican made $28k, a Democrat's husband made $700. One of these 13 sits on the House Banking and Financial services committee. All info from public disclosure records.

Meh.
True -- BUT MS/Sony/Nintendo allow developers to use cross-platform libraries. And better yet, this policy does not bar them from releasing high-quality products, regardless of what Jobs would have you believe.
"'We have countries like India, Singapore, China, and they realize the future productivity of their country is an investment in their intellectual and creative resources,' said gifted education expert Joseph Renzulli."

Yeah, but those countries concentrate on making sure that the average and below average pupils have rather better and more challenging curricula than most pupils in the United States.
I know and love both World of Goo and Gish. Any reviews or recommendations on the others?
I would have cared if it was my phone. I don't understand how you can classify this is anything BUT a stolen phone. If I leave my phone at a bar and some guy runs off with it, it's stolen.

I once left my wallet on top of a gas pump while filling up my car. I drove away, realized my mistake, and was back within a couple of minutes. My wallet was predictably gone. Is that 'finders keepers'? Nope, it's a stolen wallet.

Same thing.
Are Lean Startups About to Change Management Science?
Why Apple's iPad 3G Isn't Worth the Extra Money
I didn't either - in path params seems like an interesting way to address issues that can come up when devising RESTful URL schemes (rather than relying on query params only).
There is a small difference - syntax affects the read time comprehensibility of code in ways other abstractions dont. For eg in C++ an overridden "+" operator could be doing anything in the background and there would be no way for you to know by a casual read of the code. Lisp has macroexpand-l for this, but one needs to be dilligent enough to use it on new pieces of code.
I got slapped with a hefty charge a few weeks ago just because some HN'er sent me a usb stick in the mail (insured). Beware!
It certainly feels faster. It also took less than half the time to run the webkit JS benchmark than my firefox install. 414ms vs 1046ms.

And it also fixed a glitch I was fighting with the Xmarks extension being unable to sync.

So I'm back to Chrome as my default browser.
This post is great and perfectly refutes their points. They want unconditional loyalty to a low-paying, high-stress job that might sell out or go bust any minute. And for startups in the VC game, they give drip-drops of equity that will never amount to anything even if they did get a big buy-out and then might be asked to move to another city or just laid off. All for the "opportunity" to work there? I don't think so. Maybe I'll just go work for a company where I can work 40 hours a week with an extra 50K a year and build a startup of my own on the side.