skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<a href="http://www.peuplade.fr>; Peuplade</a> is a site in France for organizing social activities around your geographical location. It's great to meet people in your neighborhood! I found it an excellent opposite to Facebook, which keeps you in touch with people far away (that was my original perception, at least).

I find the "neighborhood" approach much more interesting for a social site than "real-life friends". Another interesting use of social networks is <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.com>CouchSurfing</a>;
Tons of hardware and software benchmarks
If already working with VMWare and Unity you can have a host browser for normal browsing and a VMWare browser for facebook (or the other way around). If not working with VMWare, this is overkill, of course.
EA releases iPhone version of Skate It
I think that almost every single time I buy a CD I get buyers remorse. I have decided I will never buy another CD or single track, as I get this feeling even from buying a single track on iTunes. Thankfully, mog.com alleviates all of my remorse!
It is really cool startup. Smart concept - git powered deployment, very clear and beautifully visualized information, and excellent, even stunning web design. Add to that some Japanese/Zen flavor and it's almost perfect. Very good taste.

I'm glad that they're successful. It's good when a good taste wins.
The dark box flipping around on top of the picture seems gratuitous and pointless. It'd be a nicer effect if the picture just zoomed and became brighter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com
FB will get a share of ad revenue from a 3rd party application that Bob installs. That application will have access to my picture that I set to "only Bob".

You can blame Bob for being the middle man, or me for not reading the fine print in the privacy policy, but at the end of the day FB is making money from "selling my private data"
However, are they really extracting more money from their customers if they are charging used gamers for online content?

No, they're trying to extract money from people who weren't their customers to begin with.
" I want the Indian Government to some up with its own cryptographic protocols/algorithms like the NIST in the US does. "

Fwiw they do use their own algorithms. I know (and have worked with) people doing exactly this. Like most of the NSA's work in the USA what they do is classified. I am sure every government worth its name does similair things.
Maybe not "consumer" type customers, but it may well be to more sophisticated customers such as businesses, who want to have more control, not be locked in, want to be able to do their own integrated systems, etc...
Sad when the "legit tech press" have to resort to linkbait headlines to get eyeballs.

The simplest answer to Android's success has more to do with the number of models and network availability than with some bogus claim about arrogance. A better headline would have been "Is Apple being bitten by Android because of its exclusivity agreement with AT&T?"
I'm amazed it was allowed to continue for so long. It's pretty clearly against Google's terms of service.
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You're in his address book. He let facebook have access to his address book. He skipped sending you a friend request, but facebook is giving you the option to do it in reverse.
Interesting. I actually used to use iTunes a lot, but I've lost a lot of music through them. The first time was before I had my iPod, and my old computer died. I had tried to make an mp3 cd of those songs before the compy died, but back then, iTunes didn't allow it. I went to iTunes on my new computer, and I wasn't allowed to re-download the songs I'd already purchased.

I have a lot of issues with iTunes and iPods (how the hell do I transfer music from my iPod to my PC? This is really not clear), but I actually want to pay for music, and so far, it's the best fit for me.

It was really laughable when Sony installed malware on peoples' computers for having legitimately purchased their music cd, and then was unapologetic about it.

I always argue that people should pay for copyrighted material, rather than violate the copyright, but when I read some of the stories about the RIAA's activities, I feel like I'm playing the devil's advocate.
This article is complete garbage. It gives absolutely zero facts to back up the author's assertion that Apple's recent behavior has led to Android's gains.

How can a publication publish this? Look at some of the ambiguous language used by the author:
"...may be a sign..." "...in the minds of many..." "...bad taste in many consumers' minds..." (The last one is not only ambiguous, it's a cliche, and a mixed one at that.)

Is this supposed to be an opinion piece? It's certainly not labeled as such. IW should be embarrassed to have published this drivel.
When I read this page I wanted to try it out. But I was to fraidy cat to do so because I can't afford to kill my work computer. I would add that you need to explain how the software works and why I should not be worried about BSOD or some other crippling effect. And yeah I wondered about what SlyShy says too. But I hope its real and if you would like help with a nicer design for it I would be happy to host a Wordpress site and help you get a better explanation written. NO COST. Just community juice to see a good idea grow.
I use LINQ as much as possible in my code. Any time I do any type of looping construct I re-evaluate whether I should be writing it using LINQ.

Most C# developers think LINQ is some fancy new concept but in reality they are just an implementation of Haskell list comprehensions ported to C# by Erik Meijer. I love watching the the imperative and functional languages converge like this.
Or, (and I say this living in the Czech Rep, and I just did a search on this country's top search site which is not google) if she put up a web page, nobody would find it, unless they wade through 30 pages of results. Unless she is a SEO wizard, it actually makes more sense for her to target locally (train station in the town she lives in) in a way that people will see it. Or, it could be financially motivated. (Hosting costs, etc...)
Perl 6 is not meant to interoperate directly with Perl 5. It's not an incremental update in any way. IMO, it would be a lot clearer if Perl 6 weren't called Perl.
Which is compounded by the fact that programmers are the early adopters of the internet, google etc.
I don't understand the criticism that people have to markup all their data. As I understand the semantic web, only programmers and certain other skilled users were expected to knowingly do that. (Because the semantic web is more about providing interop between programs.)

So, when I type a date into a box, that date can later be represented as a departure date. Some programmer already constrained and validated my input, and stored it in a DB; I don't have to do anything unusual. Later, semantic web clients will request my departure date (among other things); then it's pulled out of the DB or cache, and formatted in the semantic web format which they expect.

Do I misunderstand?
Perhaps it's not as popular because it doesn't have One True Web Framework, which is what the young'uns use these days, right? I know Catalyst and Mason are both very nice frameworks, but they don't come rolled with a base Perl installation.
This is some pretty serious monkey math. It doesn't matter that Android outsold iPhone 28% to 21%, it says, because iPhone grew from 16%. It omits the fact that Android grew from near 0.

It's not hurting the iPhone yet because the industry is still in a growth phase, and even with RIM holding steady there was still a 50% market share held by increasingly irrelevant OSes like Symbian and WinMo.

The real test will be the upcoming year. Most of the other OSes have faded away at this point. There's not enough marketshare left for both to grow like they did last year.
I find it interesting that 5 of the 6 headlines annotated on the graph are for the wrong topic.
<sarcasm>So, basically the author is saying that against the OS of no-choice (iPhone OS), Android is the choice for those that have no choice.</sarcasm>

Seems a bit lop sided. The way I see it, Android is for those who prefer an OS Of-choice.
I very much want a miniature Cray-1 for my desk.
An Article on Drinking More Water Will Surprise You With All the Benefits
Peuplade is a site in France for organizing social activities around your geographical location. It's great to meet people in your neighborhood! I found it an excellent opposite to Facebook, which keeps you in touch with people far away (that was my original perception, at least).

I find the "neighborhood" approach much more interesting for a social site than "real-life friends". Another interesting use of social networks is http://www.couchsurfing.com
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Rock Stars ~ Startup Entrepreneurs
Yeah, the feeling of playing a game in a web browser on a mobile device (regardless of whether it's Flash or HTML5 or whatever) is usually poor enough if it's even doable that I wonder whether there'll ever be much mobile gaming through web browsers.
Respect due for a government?! Wow, yours is a strange and different country...

And from what we can see, it's not deserved.
It sounds like they're doing it simply because they have a lot of break ins.

How is a new operating system supposed to ensure better passwords? 99% of break ins are because of really lame passwords, isn't that true?

Creating your own OS is for that reason like inventing your own type of house because you never remember to lock your door.
I hate getting all of those stupid Facebook updates about my friend's farms on Farmville, I don't care if Bob had a good harvest this year, it's all fake!

Now you start talking about real plants, a real garden (even if it's just a few pots) and you've got me much more interested. I might actually pay attention when some of my friend's SproutRobot Gardens are doing well, something is ready to harvest, etc. "Hey Bob, can I get a few of those peppers you just harvested?"

Anyway, definitely go this route, I can see this being huge.
After the money made processing the oil there will be plenty more to be made with the distribution networks and gas stations themselves. While processing data is an interesting problem for geeks, the more mainstream problem will be visualizing data. I don't go down to the refinery and pull my car up to the spigot. I buy my gasoline at a pump where I can also pick up the milk and get a cup of coffee at the same time.
Yes, but the people who buy their games used do not want to pay full price or near full price for their games. They are extremely price-conscious and instead of suddenly paying $10 more for their used games for no good reason, they will just not buy as many used games as before.

It's the same mentality as the whole pirate discussion. If you are a game publisher, the people who buy the games used are not your customers. They clearly state that they do not wish to buy your product at your price point. Same with pirates, they also clearly state their preferences. Neither group is your customers.

However, people that buy your games new and sell them on are your customers, but with this move, your product becomes less valuable to them ($10 to be exact) and this probably makes a few of them not buy your game in the first place.

What EA dearly wishes to happen though is that Gamestop and similar should soak this cost to keep the used games market running exactly as before. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. At least EA is trying stuff so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Range Voting
Did you try with a stool? So you can seat or stand. I'm thinking about trying this set up.
Dumping core
Not sure I agree with that. The problem with Windows Mobile was that there was no vertical integration. Who do I call when I have a problem? The phone manufacturer? The OS supplier?

Blackberry has been very successful in the business world because they control the hardware and the OS. If there's a problem (and you can't tell if it's hardware or software related), you resolve it through one company.
Me, as a developer, I can't fault the iPhone. I really enjoy the platform. Sure there are things that I wish it could do, but I tend to agree with Apple's stance on most aspects.

I remember developing for J2ME handsets in the past - That was a nightmare:

I created an XMPP application and one thing in particular that stuck with me was that I was testing on a Sony Ericsson that was maybe 6 months old. A few weeks in to development I got another midlevel Sony Ericsson handset. The newer phone didn't support a feature that the older one did! (I can't particularly remember what it was - It was something really silly - like it didn't support alerts or something...)

You ended up just supporting the lowest common denominator (Or trying too.) Argh! It was a nightmare - Every phone had its own UI and of course you couldn't test on every model (Who could afford that?). Phones didn't have the same amount of physical buttons. Every vendor implemented the SDK differently.

Of course back then I wished that Flash Lite was released. I would have happily worked inside a non fragmented sandbox.

We didn't even have browsers that you could reliably support. You just had to support the lowest common denominator and that was that.

This wasn't even that long ago - Maybe 6 years?
And if you don't have time to go out and look for hookups, of course there's always a startup to help you out - http://goodcrush.com
This is playing out exactly like the personal computer saga of the 80s and 90s... We all know how this story ends...

Look, we've got to declare a moratorium on this glib analogy. The 1980s were about a hundred years ago in terms of computing history.

In 1980, the year the IBM PC was released, there was no such thing as the Web, let alone web standards. The Internet's users, if gathered together, would fit in a fairly small conference room, and they were all academics and DoD researchers exchanging email.

Mass-market computers were lonely and isolated. They communicated with each other via tapes -- or, if you had the money, nice big fast 140k floppy disks -- that were sent through the mail, or via the awesome 300 baud modem, which was three to ten times slower than reading speed. There was no standard for data interchange other than the plain ASCII text file: Every program on every platform had its own data storage standard, and its own display model, and had to be custom compiled in place. The X window system was still four years in the future, for god's sake.

The free software movement hadn't been invented yet. Linux was ten years in the future. Unix was largely an academic thing.

Everything in computing was literally one million times more valuable in 1980 than it is today. [1] This, alone, renders these analogies to the 1980s invalid. These days we have disposable technologies that are a thousand times more powerful than the Apple II. You can buy shoes that are smarter than the IBM PC. If I feel "locked in" to my proprietary iPhone and crave the netbook experience, I spend 200 bucks and buy a netbook. That's less than last week's restaurant budget, I'm afraid. (I splurged.)

Apple's "closed" ecosystem is invisibly connected to the net 100% of the time through the air, is largely constructed out of free software maintained by a ragtag network of volunteers, and has a standards-compliant web browser as its core feature. Google's "open" ecosystem depends crucially on a distant, proprietary network of machines, itself more powerful than the dreams of 1980s science fiction, that runs secret algorithms to compile and correlate data on the entire world. And people keep trying to pretend that the lessons of the 1980s are actually relevant. It's like trying to predict the future of auto racing by analyzing the results of the 1899 Kentucky Derby.

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[1] Moore's Law: Everything doubles in about 18 months. 1980 = 30 years ago = 20 doublings; 2^20 is about 1 million.
Is Programming Getting Less Popular?

Only among the posers.

They're the ones who jump into the latest/coolest/most promising thing and bail when they realize how much work it really is.

Those of us who were here before them and will be here long after they're gone say "71 79 79 68 32 82 73 68 68 65 78 67 69".

[EDIT: Added the 32. tome wins]
I can read mark-up languages (I have been using them for editing since well before the invention of HTML), so the barely changed editor seems fine by me, but I can well believe it is off-putting to most would-be Wikipedians. The best feature of the editor is preview mode, so I can get a reality check on whether I've edited correctly or not.

I tried out the new look in beta beginning more than a month ago. The most habit-changing change was the relocation of the search input field. But that just gets it closer to the industry standard of being in the upper right of the page, so I'm gradually getting used to that.
You should use Google Insight and not Google Trends, then you can choose categories related to computers only so you don't get useless queries like related to Java island
He's got the founder flag and access to the database, so he can easily just flip the bits back whenever he wants to.

However, I've witnessed a number of debates over Jimbo's (ab)use of his privileges and he's never done this in response, so he at least seems to be taking it seriously (for Wikipedia e-drama values of "seriously").
Perhaps that interface implements IP-based rate limiting like the regular google.com
If you see it from the business side - the are all different plattforms. How many users know that they are using Linux on their mobile?

But then again, what is the point of beating Apple?

Do want to have more mobile Linux out there than Iphone OS - that is just a matter of time.

Do you want to be the plattform that makes their users more happy - that is lot of work. Distros will really have to work together for this.

Cheers
You (and the writer of the article), of course, mean Linq to Objects. Linq providers are free to compile Linq structures to whatever they want to, in the case of objects that means compiling to list comprehensions, but for example in the case of Linq to SQL it all compiles down to SQL queries.

(Sorry for nipticking, the reason I'm pointing this out because people get confused about the unfortunate Linq terminology all the time).
You're probably talking about the long dead one-man project to rewrite all the /bin/* utilities in Perl. That had nothing to do with Larry Wall.
Plus, Android lets you make calls that you can complete, something Microsoft couldn't (and arguably Apple too, in NYC and SF).
Since 2.x is just as feature stable and was just released in the last incarnation (2.7) before an "extended maintenance period", I do believe the limbo you speak of isn't an issue for anyone actually using Python.

I can imagine it looking worrisome from the outside, though.
The same thing happened with FM radio, the cassette tape, and the VCR. I sympathize to a certain degree with the record labels, but they're essentially just middlemen. Door-to-door vacuum salespeople were undoubtedly upset when the market shifted and made their business model irrelevant -- the primary difference is that vacuum salespeople don't have a powerful lobby presence and thousands of attorneys on retainer.

Personally, I'll never buy another CD, because I feel like the prices are artificially inflated to sustain a large number of unnecessary middlemen in an outdated supply chain. I do miss the feeling of buying a new album, reading the insert, and so forth -- but it's just not worth it to me knowing I'm funding the record labels' war on their own customers.
Getting Square: A Guide to the New Mobile Credit Card Payment System
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Rails is the main driver behind Ruby's success, true. And it really is a nice framework. However, Rails doesn't come rolled with a standard Ruby installation either, and 'gem install rails' is no easier or harder than 'cpan -i Catalyst::Devel'.

Interestingly, I notice many of the new Rails 3.0 features -- most notably composable set algebra and increased modularity -- are features which drew me to Catalyst+DBIx::Class. I haven't worked with Rails 3 in detail yet, but I have some Rails work coming up in the next few months and I am excited to compare and contrast.
You missed a 32
Fantastic idea. I remember having a baby put my wife and I on a bunch of mailing lists. However, some of the niche targeting they used worked very well. For instance, my wife now subscribes to the parenting mags which were sent to her for free.

A news letter seems like it would be spot on here, but I would take advantage of the two way internet and allow comments and reviews too.
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Chris Hofstader appointed as GNU access technology director
Maybe. But the only thing we can infer from that is that fewer people are searching for specific programming technologies. Maybe you can infer that those products are becoming less popular. But I don't think that's enough to infer that about programming in general.
That's an oversight IMHO. A bad design decision. It's not a bug. But we're arguing semantics I guess.

Is the feature documented then? I assumed it was a hidden secret thing.
How can this be?!?!?! The scientific consensus was overwhelming!!! Al Gore and Michael Mann tell me I am not to question scientific consensus and to do so I shall be branded a "denier".
Yeah, there are so many clever tricks. the Tamagochi concept, the farming as out ancient shared past, the possibility to show up, like people do with real houses and consumer goods, and so on. And remember they use facebook as a market, that no one have done before, and no one will repeat the same success. The wow-factor goes to the first.

But it cannot run on the ARM-based devices, and that is why flash sucks. Just discard all marketing hype and face the reality.
Have you tried searching on Google Maps? I think they already automatically extract addresses from Web sites. So if you make a babysitting web site with your address, it should work.

Also not sure how semantic web would help with targeting locally.
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because a lot of people wouldnt go to the bother of using fully fledged javascript solutions for a tiny visual flourish.

most of these css techniques degrade very very well and are incredibly simple to implement, if it is a "this site MUST have this animation", then best to go down the jquery route, if its a "this will be nice to add" then doing it in css3 only saves a ton of bother.
Openness isn't a desirable quality to most people, outside of the geek circle. It's the results, a richer environment of products and features, better support, customization, and speed of implementation that appeal to people.
Measuring Linux Operations
I find it somewhat ironic that you try to specify that the term LINQ be limited to LINQ to Objects and then proceed to explain how it doesn't matter whether the provider is for objects or SQL. Granted, his examples are all LINQ to Objects, but I see no need to be that specific. The provider could be Objects, SQL, Parallel Objects, etc. But the LINQ is still the same.
I often wonder how well ads work for social networks in general.
I don't have problem with ads like facebook,twitter uses - promoting the apps on their platform.

Yeah, but if someone intends to monetize using ads, which are out of context or just plain annoying, probably just to get better CPI, that seems evil enough for me not to use the website.
The number of objects is far too small to provide a very meaningful result.
If BB is an example of the "benefits" of a closed system, I'll take Android any day of the week. It completely blows BB out of the water.