skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. That is their job as our servants (civil servants, that is). The cop is supposed to be more respectful and willing, and they should be working on that. They are people though, and as such we should afford them some respect, not for the weapons they carry, but the way the act.
It's so when your patent is disputed, you can cite things like "In column 9, lines 34-36 of document E2, it is disclosed that..." (I'm translating just such a dispute claim now. For a tampon applicator. I'd rather be learning about railroads.)
Google answers privacy questions
Quote from Inc Mag article:

Others grouse about Groupon's fee. "It's a bold thing for a company to make 50 percent for essentially hawking an e-mail list," says Lincecum. Mason makes no apologies. "We have a waiting list of hundreds of businesses in our larger cities," he says. "Demand is much higher than supply. If I remember high school economics correctly, that means our margin is too low."
So, what is a good book on chess strategies mentioned in the article?
I like the design! One thing though, I was on my iPhone and it seemed like I always had to click twice to see the vote figures?
What is ridiculous about that patent?
Why Are Cancer Costs Rising?
Not true. Dirty little secret - you can roll forward the expiration on a credit card with impunity. The expirations are because the magnetic strips wear, not for any security.
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I agree with what he said. Unfortunately for me, I did exactly what he said not to do and GSoC wasn't as fulfilling as it could have been as a result.
Again, ideally, this decision should be passed down to the underlying datastore. It's only at that level that you have the reliable information on how the data is distributed among cores.

On what kinds of back-end do LINQ and PLINQ support parallelization?
I noticed this on a friends iPad also, it seems that the first touch is the Hover event and the next touch is the actual Click event.

edit: I am working on a mobile version of the site.
I wonder if the same thing will happen to 3d printing as what has happened to normal printing: using high ink prices to subsidize the actual units. I sure hope not: if industries actually build goods using this process the demand will bring the "ink" cost down.
It's called "loading request" and Google mentions it in the docs. They claim that with the number of users rising, relatively few people will actually experience it. But the ~10 seconds it takes to load my clojure app surely is not pleasant.
Followup: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/04/the_reality_o...

Some nagging details: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2008/03/12/the-nagging-details-ab...
Because if your server is getting hammered the JVM is going to be warmed up and really fast.
Sounds like an interesting idea, P2P file-sharing has worked pretty splendidly in the past, no reason why P2P oversharing couldn't work :-)

Project website: http://joindiaspora.com/
Whoever came up with just-in-time compilation deserves a gold medal, without that none of this would have ever happened.

My understanding is that JIT in Java is a variation on what the Smalltalk world called dynamic optimization. That was introduced into Smalltalk by Peter Deutsch and Allan Schiffman in the 1980s, but I don't know whether or not they invented it independently.
Quel temp fait-il. french vocabulary for beginners
What Hayek said is that the bubbles popped pretty early on (which is a good thing) because they could not be maintained and continued by the institutions that existed back then. That the bubbles popped is a good thing. A gold standard keeps the inflation stable, because gold can't be printed. Hayek goes on to say that a gold standard would not work because governments have an incentive to "cheat" and blow up giant bubbles, which cannot be done successfully with a gold standard.

I think that currency should not be issued by governments at all, the absence of government issued money would mean competing currencies, and in a situation where gold competes with other currencies, gold often wins the confidence of the people.
It is, but here on HN comments which do not add to the conversation are nit encouraged. Just upvote!
That's an even more innocuous title. I really don't see why you think it implies Google is "evil".
I have no idea what current practice is, but back then we used reference books. Knowing how to interpret the reference books -- that's what you do the degree and postgraduate training for. (And the commonest stuff you learned to spot straight off the bat.)

One problem is that you need to be able to talk to/see the patient yourself. There's stuff that won't be in their medical records -- if they eat lots of spinach or drink grapefruit juice, for example. (Both of which have nasty side-effects when combined with various medications.) Or ask them how/when they take their meds. (A surprising number of patients misunderstand their prescriptions ...)
you should watch James May(top gear)as he goes to the edge of space in one of these: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cZLfK4Zjk
They say they have a rudimentary prototype up and running. When are they going to post a github link for others to start helping out? ;)
Software piracy cost surpasses $51 billion, BSA says
The Changelog - http://thechangelog.com

I've been listening to this recently - decent if you're into open source, unixy, ruby, javascripty type topics.
That's exactly how the industry works. If you look at the manufacturers' 10Ks, it's very much the 'razor and blade' model.

And you're also right, it's a real problem when other people make knock-off materials. Lots of people are doing it, and the manufacturers are trying to stop it by making the cartridges super proprietary and making unauthorized materials void your warranty, but that's not stopping everyone...
An editor like this would be great for teaching programming. I've been thinking about something like this since Zed's new Python book came out. Having taught several complete beginners, the greatest friction in first learning to program doesn't come from bad pedagogy, but at step 0: getting the environment set up. A web-based coding and learning environment, complete with syntax highlighting and whitespace management, would be wonderful.
Not directly related, but we (Braintree) recently blogged about credit card expiration dates. Here is a snippet: "If you run a transaction in our gateway and enter a date in the past for the credit card expiration date, you may be surprised to discover that we don't validate it. We run the transaction knowing that the card is expired. Why do we do this? The short answer is that financial institutions will still approve transactions with expired expiration dates."

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/credit-cards-a...
8 things to look for when hiring startup talent
Someone here was recently bemoaning the decline of copy editors and this article seems like a great example, because it has nickel spelt "nickle" 4 out of the 9 times it appears.
That's a U-2, not an SR-71
Seriously. Studies from a wide variety of languages over several decades have found that average lines of code/developer is reasonably close to constant independent of what language the developer is using. Therefore languages and libraries that result in less code to get your work done generally result in higher productivity.
37. Kh3 Qg5 threatening mayhem on g4. Best is 38. Qg1 to protect g4; then ...Re7 gets rid of the knight, one way or another, and g4 goes bang anyway.

37. Kg3 Qd6+; Kh3 or Kh4 Qh6 threatening mayhem on the h-file.

37. f6 Rf7 followed by hxg4 and g3+ and the WK has nowhere to hide. If, say, 38. Qf1 hxg4; Kg3 to stop this then Qd6+; Kh4 g3+ and White is toast. In some variations B can just play ...Rxf6 instead of ...hxg4, and again the WK ends up with nowhere to hide.

(I'm a patzer, or more precisely a rusty club-level player; the above is the result of some experimenting with a strong computer program. I may have missed important things.)
I had the idea to explore a similar concept, based on shared events instead of a friend list. The objective was avoiding the degradation I had seen on other social networks. Hi5 and Orkut were the experiences where I based this reasoning. This was 3-4 years ago, I still hadn't used facebook.

One of my ideas was to give users access to sponsored SMS's. They could send a SMS and would have to choose some sponsor to that SMS, in the bottom of the SMS it would be included a slogan of the sponsor (20-40 characters). This could also work as user acquisition by sponsoring the platform itself. <evil> The friends contact information could also be used somehow </user>

The strong points for this idea was that the profiles of users would have been richer to the advertisers allowing better targeting. Consumer brands are strongly tied to events, and I suppose this would facilitate getting advertisers. It would also enable to give brands opportunities to sponsor smaller events (long tail on the event advertising market).

Ads targeting is in a whole new level nowadays and I don't believe it would be a real competitive advantage, but maybe it could be sold as so. The success of this idea also depends a lot on how much people value free SMS's. Here in Portugal SMS's are free inside the same operator but I see younger people doing big gimmicks to get free SMS's to other operators. The effort people are willing to put to achieve that is crucial, I don't know how well that applies in other contexts.

Could we see something similar on Twitter? Instead of a sponsored SMS, a sponsored Tweet? If they give me the possibility of tweeting from my cell phone for free in exchange of a few characters and ads noise I would do it.
Regarding the 0xdeadbeef reference, the answer is "it makes debugging easier when looking at hex dumps". I don't think the interviewer just asked him "explain the significance of dead beef". He probably first asked "do you know about 0xdeadbeef".
Wolfire open sourcing Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture
http://roomtoread.org
"...the point of this strategy is to say that you don't need a hit to survive. You don't need to aim for the short head of best-sellerdom to escape the long tail. There is a place in the middle, that is not very far away from the tail, where you can at least make a living [..] It's a much saner destination to hope for."
Is YouTube Killing Your Network Speed? 6 Tips for Managing Bandwidth
36...Qd8+ only looks better to a computer. The idea is 37. f6 hxg4 38.Nxg4 gxf6 threatening ...Rh7+ or 37. Kg3 Qd6+ 38. Kh4 Qh6!

But Anand's 36...g5+ is much easier for a human to play. It's easier to see White's reasonable responses and how to deal with them.

Anand never made a move that let go of his winning advantage, and all the (mild) criticisms of his play are based on moves that computers think win a little faster; but a human should play to win as reliably as possible, and that's what he did.

I am astonished though by Topalov's mistakes capturing the f and e pawns. They were inexplicable, because they're not really tactical errors at all; they simply show terrible positional misunderstanding.
Awesome. I have been working on a very similar product and have been looking for people to bounce ideas off and possibly work with. I think there is a big opportunity to provide an easy way to discover and organize events nearby. It solves a real problem (what's going on around me?). Drop me a note if you want to chat.
It appears that Herodotus has prior art on that.
haha, love the fact that I'm down voted!
Yep. Even if Topalov missed 34...Qe8!, he should have seen how dangerous it was to open the diagonal for the bishop and walk his king to h3. Maybe he thought he could outplay Anand in a complicated position, but Vishy was more than up to the task. (His technique for the final 20 moves was flawless.)

Maybe Topalov realized that he would be a big underdog in a rapid/blitz playoff against Anand and decided to take his chances in the last slow time-control game.

An exciting conclusion to the match!
I think this is the story you're referring to: http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story...
I see on your application page that you have that addendum. I'm sorry for the incorrect statement, the rep I worked with last year didn't do a good job of communicating requirements (also was very inflexible with monthly fees).

I will be sure to keep Braintree in mind for my next venture
Have you looked at Mozilla Bespin? https://bespin.mozillalabs.com/
Fair comment.

But the closing statement in that paragraph is:

"It’s no surprise that the winning test lacks design elements or complexity, keeping it simple collects the sale."

So ultimately, I think we're all on the same page.

Simple & clear messaging trumps complexity.
they didn't receive the registration link?
EA Sports to charge used game buyers $10 to unlock basic online multiplayer
Robert Rich wrote a long reply to this: http://robertrich.com/1000-true-fans-an-answer/

It's been 2 years since I read it but if I recall correctly it was worth it.
I've been biking recently, but I used to take the subway. That's socialist. Taking a cab would be capitalist.

None of those activities are inherently socialist or capitalist. Individual actions, responding to one's own preferences, tastes, needs, and incentives, can't really be socialist or capitalist.

Socialism and capitalism are macro-systems about how the fruits of labor should be distributed/exchanged.
Depends on your level and interests, but "How to Reassess your Chess," by Jeremy Silman is an excellent book if you're beyond the beginner level.
I'm not sure how it does, since "copy protection" never seems to stop software, music, movies, etc. from showing up on pirate sites. I honestly don't know what the answer is, but DRM is really a pain-in-the-ass for legitimate customers who are perfectly happy paying money for their software, movies, etc., but it doesn't seem like it ever amounts to more than a minor speedbump to pirates.

I'm sympathetic to software devs, musicians, movie makers, etc. who don't want to see their work pirated, I really am. But as a customer, I FUCKING HATE being treated like a criminal when I try to play games, watch movies, etc. that I legitimately fucking payed for.

I don't see how this is a sustainable situation, particularly when each new generation of DRM seems to punish legitimate paying customers harder than the last generation.
$ ruby -e '%w{71 79 79 68 32 82 73 68 68 65 78 67 69}.each {|c| print c.to_i.chr}'

GOOD RIDDANCE
The game assets are included in the snapshot, and can be redistributed for free, but cannot be resold without our permission.

I am awaiting the final license for the assets. To be honest I expected the whole game to be free and open-source so one can freely reuse it. This is a (small) letdown.
How to get a 15-year-old started with coding?
I have a nephew who has expressed interest in spending part of his summer learning more about computers and learning to code a bit.

I was thinking about inviting him to spend a few weeks at my dev shop where he can work largely in isolation but I'll be around and a couple of my guys can give him some guidance and help him learn.

Basically, my question is if you were trying to introduce a 15-year-old to coding, how would you go about it?

I was thinking about sticking a few books in front of him and challenging him to build a basic twitter or flickr clone just to give him a target. Maybe 2 days on HTML/CSS, 2 days on JQuery, 3-5 days in PHP or Ruby but I want to keep him away from frameworks, maybe another week with MySQL or SQL and trying to put it all together. I can build him the DB if needed.

It's been 16 years since I started so it's hard to put myself in his shoes. For some of you younger coders:

1) When you started coding, what did you start with? HTML/CSS, then basic scripting or JQuery, then DB stuff? What language would you start with today if you were just starting?

2) What resources did you use? Web sites/tutorials? Books? Any good entry level books you'd recommend I put in front of him?

3) Did you have specific things you were trying to build?

4) Did anyone help you or provide guidance? If so how/what?

5) What kind of guidance would have helped you?
Generally sites lock down info that can be used to help users reset passwords when they forget them. Also, birth dates are used to help ensure compliance with child-protection laws. You can't change your birthdate on Yahoo either.

(I work for FB, but not on this part)
From the video: "My mum won't put anything on the internet unless she's ready to see it in a newspaper".

His mum is a smart lady.
There are such projects, the most famous one probably being SubEthaEdit for the Mac, but clones exist for most platforms. Obby is a multiplatform editor using Operational Transform, for example: http://gobby.0x539.de/
Was this based on Etherpad? The Etherpad editor is setup similarly (with it being a whole bunch of <div>'s instead of a normal text field).
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I'm not surprised. It's the route that all games seem to take when they go open source - Quake 1-3, Duke Nukem 3D, and Freespace 2 have all taken this route. It's a way to prevent your game from becoming outdated without losing any ability to make money in the future.

You can buy Lugaru for a song right now anyways off the deal website (which has been extended another week).

Edit: I think I misunderstood your comment. It appears that the code will be licensed under the GPL (a link on the bundle website indicates as much). I'd imagine you can reuse the code (with the stipulations attached), but not the art assets, which are almost never distributed with source code releases.
I've registered on several sites, only to find out that the service is not available outside of the US. It would be good if designers put this information front and centre on the registration page instead of telling me afterwards (ie. Kickstarter).
Tab stops and other basic features are impossible to support if you’re using the browser’s HTML layout engine for your text.

Can't you just place the document you're editing inside a DIV and use left and right margins for tabstops and change them with javascript? Or am I completely missing something?
In my A/B testing experience I've never seen aesthetics be a major factor, and only rarely have I heard of it mattering for anyone else. That experience has been echoed by other people I know who do A/B tests. Instead messaging, usability, clear calls to action, etc win consistently.

But if you build a site with those goals and without worrying about aesthetics, you're going to wind up with an ugly site.

However that said, there are a couple of amusing cases I know about where deliberately making something ugly was an A/B testing win. Photoshop found that by setting ugly default fonts they push people to poke around the application to change the defaults, which results in a lot more usage of other features. Similarly Freshbooks redid their invoicing some time ago, and found that people overwhelmingly preferred the new version, yet conversions to paying customer were better when people were given the old version and forced to figure out that they could change it on their own. (And yes, most of the paying customers actually did change it.)

But in general aesthetics simply don't matter. And any theory based on the assumption that they do is wrong.
Is this technology derived from their acquisition of EtherPad? Or is this from Google Wave? Or both?
I hope they don't wait until Microsoft launches Windows Server 2014 Enterprise Edition for ARM Servers...

Seriously. We want that tech now and we have enterprise-grade OSs to run on them.
There's nothing special or interesting in this article except for people who already play chess at a very high level. Heck, I wonder how many Hacker News readers could tell the difference between this game and a game between the two best players in Rhode Island (no offense to Rhode Island.) And the Hacker News readers who can learn from this article already know where to find coverage, so why post it on HN?
The problem with the sales pitch is I don't know how much insight Groupon has into the long-term lift they'll give customers (i.e. how much historical data do they have?). Groupon's pricing seems like it would have to be a stab in the dark--they can't possibly know the nuances of all the businesses they deal with (massage purchasing behavior will differ from helicopter ride purchases). I feel bad for Mom and Pop operations because a massive increase in sales without proper planning could materially hurt their business.
Agreed. Nothing worse than pulling a tape only to find out the backup was incomplete. It happened, it was painful, someone got fired for it. We check for errors while dumping databases, do md5sums after on the local machine and then again on remote server where the backups are synced. Most of our backups are restored on a daily basis on development systems so we are assured they work.
If you like The Sandwich, also check out the video podcast he does with Jesse Thorne, "Put This On" a show about dressing like a grown up. http://putthison.com/
That probably gets crazy for tab stops within a line.
Android Finally Beats iPhone in U.S. Sales: Variety Wins
Another http://www.redeyeondemand.com/
Multitaskers may be falling behind
Paypal was also revolutionary. Square is doing in the physical world what Paypal did online.

In both cases, fighting fraud makes or breaks the service.
Is it really such a great deal? Enterprises usually pay top dollars for top Xeons/Opterons because they get a LOT of perfomance of a single chip, single motherboard, single rack. If they wanted to save on CPUs they could easily buy sub-100$ quad cores.
I somehow can't believe that it will be such a good deal - there has to be something (cost, complexity and low throughput of interconnects?) that made Intel's engineers not to choose this way.
CSS purist should learn that vendor prefixes are not hacks.
Placing tabs in the middle of text is the hard part. Not just putting it at the begining.
> many people, myself included, have been waiting for someone to develop a device like the iPad for years.

Of all these people, every one of them decided to passively wait, instead of taking on the task themselves?

As far as Apple innovating, IMHO, they are the current masters of producing analog interfaces for digital systems. They have to charge a premium for it, because it's harder. But plenty of people are apparently willing to pay that premium for that interface, instead of the cheapest microcontroller and a minimal number of momentary switches, so Apple wins. I don't know if choosing their own strategy instead of following the race to the bottom is innovative or not, but it certainly leads to products that stand out.
If you're at all interested in chess (as I expect some reasonable minority of HN readers are) it's rather big news, wouldn't you say? Even if you couldn't tell the difference et al. the article still has a good summary of the event and the game that would be accessible to a club player.

It's got to be both more newsworthy and also more interesting than some random Techcrunch headline if you're even a casual chess player, and I won't even start on Wikipedia links, etc.
Not really. I like learning languages and enjoy much weirder ones than Perl. Still - Perl is way more inconsistent than anything I've seen before and believe me I tried - went through the same Perl tutorials every time I had to fix some code. Every single time spending hours finding out some strange thing I wouldn't expect. Actually I learned Python at the same time I was learning Perl the first time. I spent two days fighting with Perl code, then rewrote everything in about 3h in Python with no previous experience.

I didn't skip the basics of the language. Still - basics keep biting me every single time. I don't think it's my problem after all... I mean - it may have its strange rules - but if it's less easy to handle than other languages, it won't draw new people in.