skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blöff der deutschen Banken
Deutsche-Bank-Chef Josef Ackermann hatte am Dienstag nach einem Treffen mit Finanzminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) einen "substanziellen Beitrag" der Finanzbranche versprochen.

Ein Sprecher des Bundesfinanzministeriums teilte am heutigen Freitag (7. Mai) mit, die deutsche Finanzwirtschaft wolle sich am milliardenschweren Rettungspaket der Euro-Länder für Griechenland beteiligen. Es gehe hierbei um rund acht Milliarden Euro.

Only for testing!
I'm just finishing up developing a Flash-based rich media website. My target audience includes a large contingent of 'art people' so performance on Mac is fairly important. "We love Apple"? Seeing the jerky, sluggish performance and massive CPU spikes on Mac OS I find it hard to believe this sentiment.
The Apple Insider Myth
A short, but funny story of how a random business guy perceives Apple products.
What I learnt about sales from the angry subway preacher
If you'd like trailing commas in your JavaScript, one of the tiny things that CoffeeScript does is allow trailing commas, or for commas to be omitted altogether on multi-line array and object literals.

list: [
"ape",
"bat",
]

list: [
"ape"
"bat"
]

.. are the same.
Who Controls Identity on the Web? Facebook and Mozilla visions.
They don't have to, that's my point.

An HTML5 app is a set of text files with a manifest (also text). It installs on the iPhone from a web site, then runs on the iPhone offline, complete with local data storage.

Apps that install on the iPhone (including PacMan) can be made on the OLPC laptop, no Mac or Windows needed.

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/257187093/pie-guy
You can get stylus' for apple's touch devices, I recently ordered one for my iPad.

It's called a Pogo Sketch

I plan to use my iPad for doodling and whatnot of a night time in bed, aswell as reading and general media consumption - its really my "bed time" screen device.
it's better at most non-geeky things than your macbook pro. i know because i own both.
What, you don't think kids in Africa should be able to write software that runs on the iPhone?

I learned to program as a child in Africa. What's your point?
eh, it was 40k for just one month. No mention of previous months and not enough information to predict future months. Not convinced it's sustainable given the information.
This doesn't work for me. (Chrome/Linux)

Sound quite cool though.
Aren't there tax implications for "working" in another country?
I'd be very happy if you could come up with something better.
See also the Bradley X Tax, which is a value-added tax melded with an income tax. The income tax can be as progressive as you like, and the VAT is equivalent to a flat sales tax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_tax http://www.princeton.edu/~ceps/workingpapers/93bradford.pdf
Very important when applied to personal problems. Worst-case thinking can get you in a lot of trouble. I cannot articulate how it happens but it does. Perhaps you become paranoid and blow things out of proportion. Fear immobilizes you. Or perhaps, you just accept the worst and stop looking for answers.
I'd like to help out, but admission is up to the local organizers.
OK, for sake of argument let us assume that we realize that there is a problem.

What is this solution then? (It better not involve XML or Excel spreadsheets).
Yes, but for now it's too close to the mouse. Multitouch needs to mature first.
Last 6 months have been high enough to sustain this, but who knows that the future will bring. If ever income drops down, then one would simply stop this, and look for solutions that fit the income level.
How did you hear about it?
Microsoft leaves behind XP SP2, “The End”
For a big project, I once recommended to my boss to put us all on a yacht off Key West.
Oil rig engineers have to be away that much, or they're no longer going to be oil rig engineers. They also make disproportionately more money doing that particular job than they would if they did something else.

There's no natural requirement for programmers to leave their home/families (unless they're consulting). I suspect you're not giving your employees "hazard" pay either, are you?

If it were me, I'd want to bring my family along and turn it into a work vacation.
This is brilliant.

I'm the guy who came up with the idea of using Facebook Ads to target companies that you want to work for.

http://www.onedayonejob.com/blog/use-facebook-ads-to-make-em...

I toyed around with the idea of using Google AdWords, but couldn't quite figure out how to get the targeting right. This just made me smack my forehead. For most job seekers this idea is a lot harder to implement than the Facebook idea just because you often don't know whom you want to talk to about landing a job with a given company.

Still, this has me thinking of all kind of ways that you can use AdWords to target really niche keywords. The clicks probably cost a nickel, but the attention derived from that click could be way more.
did you ever use a stylus? painfully unsexy in a pocket protector kind of way.

the stylus was a big reason why app interfaces were so terrible. it allowed lazy manufacturers to strap a pressure-sensitive screen onto a notebook and call it a tablet pc. crappy hardware disinterests great software developers.
Similarly, since I've been running Chromium without a flash plugin, I've found that I seldom miss it ... except for the occasional video.
Tethering is inevitable... but so is the end of all-you-can-eat mobile data plans.
http://spreadsong.com/hiring_on_elance_how_to_get_amazing_pe...
No it won’t. Touch events being transformed into click events means that a finger touch and swipe will be translated into a clic & drag. How do you differentiate click & drag from hover & move?
"It's more than possible that your hardware configuration is the cause"

Its definitely not the hardware horsepower itself, as I have very good performance on 64 vista.

I'm also running with the very latest nvidia binary drivers, I have an intel dual core E2200 - not cutting edge but flash will actually take up an entire core with small animations, so it definitely seems like a bug to me.

"Get in touch with Adobe and let them know your config, the problem might be fixable."

I've spent a while (way way more than I ever wanted for something that they market as 'plug in' / 'just works') going through the ubuntu forums and launchpad, some stuff seems like fixeable problems that maybe I just couldn't fix, but heres a list of problems I have:

* Sometimes opening a new firefox/chromium tab/window and loading a website with flash will crash it, crashing all flash instances - so if I'm listening to a google tech talk or something I have to restart it and go hunt the on the timeline.

* Sometimes controllers just stop responding to clicks
( http://www.khattam.info/2009/08/18/solved-flashplugin-contro... )

* Flash will flicker as I scroll down firefox/chromium.

* This has stopped now, but at one point flash crashing wouldn't free its memory, and Xorg just started consuming more and more memory, bringing the entire computer to an almost halt!

* Some flash players/gamers/whatever when I'd press the fullscreen button would get from xorg as my resolution the sum of my 2 monitors - 2560x1024, which means they'd get clipped in half or they would get letterboxed (msnbc.com and youtube.com for instance) while others such as video.google.com works just fine.

These are just things off the top of my head - it seems flash is the #1 problem for 64 bit ubuntu from quick glances at the 64 bit forums, I've had a lot more problems, I tend to avoid flash websites as a result.
T-Mobile tacitly permits tethering already. They've left the DUN profile on their BlackBerrys for years.
New iPad Commercial, it’s magical
“What is iPad?” a hoarse man’s voice ask us. “iPad is thin. iPad is beautiful.” At this point, iPad is sounding like some kind of Scandinavian model who inadvertently makes the rest of us feel dumpy. “It’s crazy powerful. It’s [wait for it] magical.” come on drop already the magical, the fist mac book air was magical, the iphone was magical, ipad is not.
The Pogo sketch works pretty well with the ArtStudio app. I can even get some "brush" effect. (No pressure sensitivity. I think it's all a software trick.)
Most countries would define "working" as earning money from an employer within that country itself, hence depriving citizens of that country of a prospective job.
Ruby 1.9 made me remember how I hate the concept of encodings
Actually, you point out a flaw in this model. Hiring has to be very specific - you need people who you can hang around with for a month and they don't drive you crazy with their teeth grinding or something. So my hiring would have to be very careful and would have to lean towards people who are similar in age and interest to the rest of the team.
Except like most of these stories it was a lie.

It was an injection molded waste receptacle cover for the toilets. Given that this was for the huge C-5 air transport, which could be carrying, shall I say, a s..t-load of men on long flights, that weight was at a premium in the design of the aircraft and the expensive tooling was amortized over very few total units for this sort of thing ... well, you can do the math.

The C-5's coffee machines are pretty expensive as well....
Congratulations, you've invented the IBM BladeCenter (QS22 -
(http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/q...)
I think actually that's just T-Mobile. They definitely seem to be the most progressive of the US carriers.

Most carriers either cut off your data entirely for the rest of the month, threaten to terminate your contract, or charge you an outrageous overage fee.
I tried that link on my phone and got redirected to the "mobile" home page, then couldn't find the article in question. I'm pretty sure people from ars are in here, if so: please fix this. I read 90% of my news on my phone during down time. Thanks.
Full Presence Stomps Multitasking. ~ Farnoosh
Are you really complaining because he used proper data normalization?
884 photos to create a nice Google logo
It seems google loves bizarre projects. At google office in London a group of employees have taken their time to create a Google logo out of 884 printed photos.
The music player can play youtube videos directly, and it's faster/easier to use seperate app for browsing/searching videos.
I don't use JS, but in PHP you can add a comma after the last item, which I usually do, and therefore I don't have the problems that you encountered. Of course, I believe that people should do what works best for them, and if you find comma first easier to work with, then great!

Edit: And in response to your first comment about your IDE not supporting this: Is it not trivial to identify a syntax error in JS when you attempt to run it? Surely the intepreter (browser?) will notify you of the line that the syntax error occured on?
But what if this is condition of the job? When you apply, you are informed that you have to do this. If its unacceptable, you simply do something else.
I do something similar, although not as lavish. I'm an independent consultant, and I typically work 4-5 weeks at home, and then co-locate for one week at the client to do planning and design for the next iteration. I've found this to be a perfect balance. I can relate to what he says about the isolation -- missing the camaraderie and sharing in small victories or frustrations. On the other hand, not having to drive into an office every day is bliss. It is a balancing act...you have to find what fits for you and your team.
Message Oriented Programming and Machine Learning in JS
I stoppped editing Wikipedia when I realized the majority of my time was taken up by doing things that should have been automated by software. I was using the beta version at the time. I don't think this update will change things that much, although a good toolbar will help.
OK, so how about some ideas for a bootstrapped company that is no where close to making $40k a month (yet)? In fact, we work remotely for the freedom it offers, but also because we can't afford a space.
I don't think html5 covers even 0.1%

They're probably counting some non-dynamic games like most facebook games & there are still some java applets games out there as well.
My Ex Wife Wedding Dress
Women carefully plan their wedding day, pick out their wedding gowns but nonetheless they have to be careful because something like this can happen.
Several companies sell a stylus for iPad, just not Apple.
Stem Cells Behave Very Differently In Space, Study Says
Noodling on Contributor Agreements
A child in Africa can also build Flash apps in a text editor using mxmlc, the free Flex SDK compiler.

The argument I quoted is a complete non sequitur in this context, because most people would associate "building iPhone apps" with "all you need is $99/year and Mac with Xcode" rather than "a text editor and a server".
True. For our startup we experienced the same; we were working with a team of 3 and we could just camp out at one of our houses for a week and do dev'ing during the day and relaxing/drinking in the evenings. When we hired a 4th guy to help out these weeks turned from awesome and productive to a sluggish pita week. He produced great work but hanging around with him in the evenings was more stressing and tiring than all the work together.
I'm also running Ubuntu x64 and have had no issues with Flash
This has been true since Sept '09 when the slim PS3 was introduced which doesn't support the OtherOS feature; as noted, the Air Force PS3's aren't hooked into the PlayStation Network.
People have tried. The whole reason they removed the OtherOS functionality is to get around the one known public break in their trusted computing model.
Why does the Moon look so huge on the horizon?
> If you’re from India, it’s important to learn English, but it’s not critical. You can get by on Hindi- you can’t get by on Hungarian or Romanian.

I don't think that's true at all. You need to learn English to understand programming manuals, teachers, and reference guides. Effective communication is not required but understanding of the English language is a must.
http://palisada.net/files/video.html

This is enough (look at the source, that's all I did, except uploading the video file). Of course, custom controls and other stuff would take more effort, but just puting a video on your website is this easy, really.
One problem would be that at best you still have a finger blocking some screen content, and at worst your whole hand is blocking. Is something in the upper left corner an "on-finger-over" that brings up a chunk of text you need to read? Uh oh.

Another would be constantly having to make the effort to not lift your finger(s). Need to reach for a pen so you can write down what you are seeing on the screen? Is that a "let-go" or a "hang-on-a-second-pretend-that-didnt-happen" gesture?

These are limitations of touch interfaces. Touch is not panacea; it's the finger painting of the computing world. That's why it appeals to those who need simple.
I havent tried the app so I'm not entirely familiar with how it works, but surely right clicking on the folder and coping will copy a link to that folder. If however, you right click on one of the files within that folder and select 'copy url' then it will copy the url that points directly to that file.

It sounds like it should be fairly simple to design.
It installs on the iPhone from a web site, then runs on the iPhone offline, complete with local data storage.

Have I missed something: does this capability currently exist on the iPhone? Or this just wishful thinking?
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Confronting the next taboo: Single
Are you using the vanilla player or the x64 player?
How did you install?
'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree' ?
Space monkey returns
That is just wrong on so many levels. Firstly, Microsoft marketed the hell out of IE. The bundling of IE with Windows was their way of getting people to use IE instead of Netscape Navigator. Since their stand (in court, no less!) was that IE was an integral part of Windows, which they sold to users, they did have an obligation to satisfy users' expectations of it. Did anyone force you to use git by bundling it with some other piece of software you were using? Nope.

Secondly, in what crazy alternate universe can git, which is given to you free as in libre as well as beer, be compared with IE? If you think git sucks, but still want to use it for some crazy reason, go ahead and modify it to suit your needs.

Lastly, I cannot imagine a world where anyone would be forced to have to cater for a VCS the way we have to for browsers. They're simply too different in function. It's not like you're in danger of being forced into the business of implementing a service supporting commits and checkouts for two different types of repositories on the same source files... unless you work at GitHub. Heh.
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"Here's what I do have a problem with -- the government being in the marriage business, and the government giving tax benefits to people who are married.

I don't sign the petitions that call for amendments allowing gay marriage. It can be awkward because people assume this is because I'm against gay people. It's not so. I'm against the government having a stake in the relationships between people, or lack thereof."

Then one should campaign for the removal of govt. from the marriage business? Otherwise the above is just a convenient excuse.
This dovetails with something that is obvious within Google. It is part of the corporate DNA to believe that everything should be open, and to believe that in a competition when things are open, that Google do well.

The results is that Google doesn't try to lock people in. Which means that, unlike Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc, Google doesn't wind up having the safety net of lock-in allowing Google to ignore customers in pursuit of some other goal.
No way this is gonna make its way to T-Mobile. :(

Thankfully there's Pdanet and others, but I surely would like it as a cleaner, built-in feature.
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"Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing."

The name was left blank in the original, but was intended to be filled in and used when a suitable subject should turn up.
Here's a good example:

http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1956201

Even if the people paid to think about these problems mean well, sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Whole Foods milk is a disingenuous comparison. There is a fundamental difference in the product and the ethics involved by using hormones. A more proper comparison would be saying something along the lines of "Ranchers can only have worn jeans when working on the farm and in the processing plant -- no khakis or anything else." One can produce organic milk wearing whatever they want -- the end product is still the same. One can produce quality applications with various tools -- the end product is still good.

If Apple has a problem with the quality of the applications then it should reject them from the store. It simply doesn't compare to making a fundamentally different product.
Except it doesn't work in Firefox because of open source politics! If you want the same video file to appear in any browser this still requires Flash unfortunately. (And supporting multiple encodings for everything you produce can be expensive in terms of processing power, storage, maintenance, and so on.)
Five Minutes to a 10x Increase in Conversions
"Is a bill like that worth voting for?"

Going by the doctor's principle of "First do no harm", no.

And your point about corruption is well taken. This bill gives so much discretion to the regulatory bodies in definitions that it's a sure path to a lot more crony capitalism. Us small startup mammals won't fare well in such an environment.

The fact that as of now Fannie and Freddie do not come under it's preview should tell us enough....
Assesment/grading in computer science education
Thanks for that Rider.

In answer to your question rcfox, it's going to be arbitrary figures rather than drop down (ideally).

Also I'd like it to look pretty slick, so something like that resistor thing may not work. Willing to pay for it. Should I be looking beyond HTML?
It's not a complete non sequitur. The example was intentional because "most people" need to be reminded that $99/year and a Mac and Xcode is not needed to build apps that install to an iPhone.

Also, text editor != compiler. No compiler is needed for an HTML5 app. An HTML5 app can be built using notepad, edlin, or vi.
I like Yehuda's advice to use --rebase. I'll have to try that.

I used to really like svn, but after using git for about a year I am now feeling some cognitive dissonance using svn on a customer project. Great tools are better than good tools.
So let's assume we manage to tackle all the problems associated with non-textual formats (merging, compatibility, opacity, etc). What does this new way of programming do better?
I'm pretty sure the direction at Oracle is far better. That must be the reason Gosling et al are leaving Oracle as fast as they can.
To the author of this post:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
I am not sure anyone else has it right, meaning Java and Python. I have read some article a month or 2 back, detailing what others have done -- none are proper/complete solutions.
But from what I've seen in ruby discussion, a lot of rubyists are having problems with the new encoding system.
^^ Go straight to that. Skip the InformationWeek crap. Who even reads InformationWeek any more?
The days of a central search engine 'indexing' the Web are nearing an end---indeed, it's already over, people just don't realize it yet. New material now appears much faster than it can possibly be indexed, and unless Google figures out a way to beat Einstein, it's only going to fall further and further behind. People will discover relevant material through their network, in a massively parallel fashion. Everyone will be their own Google.
True, actions speak louder than words as indicators of sentiment.

To purchase a banner ad expressing a sentiment is only a tactic. ...and a tactic toward what end is completely unclear to me. If I were an Apple shareholder I would expect to receive little benefit from Adobe sending Ars a few buck for a banner ad that doesn't indicate a commitment to creating more effective apps for Macs, phones, etc. that Adobe has been in past.

EDIT: And now that I visit http://money.cnn.com/ I discover that they're throwing money for cnn banners too.

EDIT2: Sorry, I did not click on the banner (never feel inclined to on any banner ad). Which reveals the punch line:

The banner actually means, "We love Apple... but... (their behavior is unacceptable)."
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Interesting, though, that so many of Sun's software engineers are leaving Oracle.
Currently exists. Has for quite a while now.
That's fair; I should have phrased that better. Here's your chance. :)
It's funny to see Adobe listing things like Gnash, Haxe, and Red5 as advantages of Flash, after impeding their early development.
That's the point of the post, we should not have to know anything about encoding. It should just work.
My point was that it's important not to hire bad people in the first place.
Slightly shorter:

print '\n'.join([" "abs(4-i) + ""(9-abs(8-i2)) for i in range(9)])
Do we have sufficient data to conclude that other planets are not warming?

Yes.

The theory that the sun is causing global worming fails on several levels and there is zero evidence from the data we have that global the sun is causing global warming.

PS: Presenting a theory with zero support and then requesting more evidence from theory’s that have support is not rational behavior. You can request all the evidence you want but at the end of the day whichever theory has the MOST evidence is more likely to be correct.