skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does look a lot like Bing - but they copied the intelligent suggestions part of Bing, which is what I like about it (for example, the images filter will stand out when Google thinks I might be looking for images). I kind of wish they would give me suggested queries on the left like Bing does too.

Ever since I had my Google service disrupted by the Great Chinese Firewall (text queries are fine now, but innocent Google image queries have always been dicey whereas Bing image searches are almost never blocked), I've been using Bing as my default. I'm pretty satisfied with the results for the text result queries. And when you compare the two image search engines (at least interface-wise), I think Bing wins hands down.
In most modern browsers Array.join and += are about equal in performance for most use cases. Depending on the length of the strings and/or the number of segments joined - performance varies. Wouldn't worry too much about it.
I usually bleat on Twitter when I've found something I want and they simply won't let me buy it! Sometimes I go on to look for shady copies, but typically what I want is so niche I can't find any :-)

Today's example: http://the99percent.com/book - a book I believe is popular in these circles. I want to read it on my iPad. I tried all the merchants and none sell a PDF and there's no Kindle edition. I can't use the iBookstore as I'm not in the US. It's not out in print in the UK yet either. It's funny because a great PDF excerpt is available. I just want to hand over money and get the full book as a PDF - it's not hard!

There was also an indie album I was ready to buy. I went to preorder the MP3 edition, typed in my CC number and I could only select "USA" in the billing address! Order lost and a note in my calendar to look for the tracks when the album is released.

So, I can't speak for everyone, but I'm finding stuff every month that I'd pay for in a heartbeat if it were in an open format and, well, if they'll accept payments from overseas.
Spotify have change the way I consume music. It's a great example of creating a service that makes it easier then the "free" illegal way. That's why I'm a paying subscriber. Both because I want to support them but also because I don't like to be interrupted by annoying commercials.
If there was a way to 'pirate' an internet connection then what's to say they wouldn't do that too?

You're right. In the past (and probably ongoing now), there have been plenty of people illegally hooking up cable Internet and satellite connections. It's just not quite as easy compared to the price for most people. Heck, I'm ready to pay a lot more to get a much better service that they won't offer me..
when a free, and equally good option is available another click away

Which is why a better looking, faster downloading, reasonably priced option would probably convert a good chunk of the pirates. People are willing to pay if they see value in it.
I usually put a safety check at the top of my code, ensuring that console and console.log exist (and, if they don't, defining something appropriate in their place).
Blizzard are successful because they created the first main-stream, polished MMO.

Blizzard was already incredibly successful before World of Warcraft. The foundation of World of Warcraft is the brand Blizzard started to build in 1996.

MMOs are the future of games exactly because the server component cannot be pirated.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. There are tons of private World of Warcraft servers. And you can be sure the same will happen for Starcraft 2. It's the social aspect of the server, not the server itself, that can't be pirated.
Sorry to be nitpicking, but it's Amy Hoy, so it should be "she's referring to this"
Finding Design Inspiration From Magazines
As designers, we’re bombarded by designs showcased in web design galleries. Most of the time, however, these showcase the same types of designs over and over again.
"One major thing to note is that this is an Australian study, so the perspective is Australian in nature."

What makes this market special? Is there any reason to believe (e.g. when looking at software piracy numbers, which for the purposes of these discussions are comparable to other forms of copyright infringement) that Australians are more likely to abide by license terms than others, when put in a situation where they do have options that are non-infringing?

The "we don't have access to legal ways of acquiring media" is a straw man argument most of the time that it's made, from my own observations. Introducing legal means does not reduce piracy rates in the cases where it has been tried so far, for example in the US or in Europe (I'm in Europe). Usually, as soon as online stores for music and video are introduced, the complaints shift to 'oh but it's too expensive'. I feel that 200k is too much for that Lamborghine Gallardo that I've go my eye on too, yet I don't hear anyone starting political parties trying to set a price ceiling on Italian sports cars, like in the digital goods world where so many are intent on trying to interrupt free markets and forcing content producers to sell their products under the price they deem optimal for the product they sell.

I'm slipping into rant mode now, but a lot of online video stores have popped up the last year here in the Netherlands. Some shows are offered on one store, some on others, but in general (across all stores) there is quite a large selection available. Not everything you can get on DVD is available online, but that's hardly reasonable to expect. You know what the new complaint from the 'it's digital so it should be free!' freeloaders is? 'Oh those media conglomerates are evil, because we can't get everything from one store!'. That's ridiculous and in my eyes only shows that most of these people will not stop until there are laws in place to, by force of the state, steal the products of the minds of creators right from under them - to take from creators the rights to appropriate the products of their minds as they themselves see fit. 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need' - yeah right, and those with the most needs just happen to be those with the least abilities. Screw them.
Agreed. I just tested performance and the difference was moot. I'd say += is easier to read so unless you're doing something really heavy duty with strings I wouldn't worry.
I stumbled upon a few of the mentioned tricks in the article lately, while working on JavaScript projects in my spare time.

Another little trick that I personally like because of its simplicity is the following:

Array.prototype.clear = function(){this.length=0;}

Clears an Array the easy way.
Why do they all have identical looking websites?
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If most people don't care, that's because they don't know. See, most people barely make the difference between their browser and a search engine. They don't think about the long term accessibility of their digital data, or about the preservation of their online privacy because they just don't know what it means. On the other hand, they do care about preserving (physical) family photos and important documents. They do care about their home not being spied.

I see people not caring as a lack of education. Computers are ubiquitous in the western world since less than a generation. The Internet is even younger. This is just too short for people to understand them (and their hazards). Just wait 20 years, and they will understand. At this point, they will care. Now, the question is whether we can accelerate the process or not.
Sheeva plug (and similar Plug computers):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_computer

Fit PC

http://www.fit-pc.com/
This looks really cool! It'd be awesome to have a retro text-based MMO in the browser.

If the server doesn't hold, that's my fault (I wrote it). Antinode's been powering my blog solidly for the last few months, but this is probably the most traffic it's got so far.

Let me know how it goes. Was it easy for you to integrate?

PS: I'm getting a 404 on the RSS for your site http://www.maraksquires.com/rss.xml
Cloud computing for business goes mainstream
No idea what he meant, but here is my take.

Conversations online often come with tedious parts, like logging into the system, composing messages with these awful input devices, double checking the recipients, etc.

Do you want these just in order to pat your friend's back to cheer him up, or to make some insider jokes?

And it's not just a UI issue; we have to design the system from the ground up to remove the obstacles for lightweight communication.
Dropbox for Nokia...?
Thank you for your detailed response.
Not to beat on the point but the opt-in vs opt-out is still not explained satisfactorily (by FB, not you)

Also, not sure if you have read but this is not good either: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_high_pressure...
The article links the original blog post ( http://www.ngrblog.com/duke-university-usenet/ ), which includes contact info and further details.

It's a pity that, 30 years on, most of the features that made a good NNTP client (from gnus to Xnews) pleasant and fast are still missing. We now have images and videos, user avatars (Usenet 'face' didn't quite take), advertisements too. Good threading, quick selection, fast loading - not so much.

Last year, for a while, I read a local auto forum to get the pulse on the car market. The forum was lively and mostly helpful, kept in line by moderators. Just reading, I found most of what I wanted to know. But, looking at the clock, I was unpleasantly surprised by the time it took to plow through a few dozen posts ...
The special thing is basically not being able to legally view shows when they first air overseas. Services like itunes are forced to put geo restrictions on things because of the local rights holders I'd imagine. Regularly these shows could air months later, if there intermittently within a few weeks the TV networks seem pretty impressed with themselves.

There have been times in the past where I have attempted to pay for shows and this restriction prevented me.
What about "plug and share" machines? I bet a plug computer[1] with everything installed on it could do the job. It doesn't need to be more complicated than Gmail.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_computer
I love how the range is called Envy as well. Fitting, isn't it?
Except they didn't really copy Bing; this results layout has, unless I'm mistaken, been kicking around for a while, with tricks for turning it on so you'd always get it.
That's why there should be a subscription option so the barrier of a micropayment disappears. I'd pay a subscription fee for (for example) unlimited TV shows and movies from iTunes, but I don't buy shows on iTunes because they cost $2 a piece (and they're DRMed, but that's a different matter).
Adobe can't fix Flash (the plugin) on OSX by copying code from VLC. As far as I understand it, the problem is the rendering pipeline provided by the OS and browser.
Ask HN: Legality of serving song samples?
I'm planning to knock up a weekend project but before I do I need to know what, if any, legal issues there are with serving 30 second song samples from a website (streaming from S3).

I've had a look online but I've turned up nada so far. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Danny Sullivan's new design in-depth:
http://searchengineland.com/meet-the-new-google-41286
OK ok ... breathe ... I can barely contain my excitement. I was reliving zzt a few weeks ago and thinking how cool it would be to port zzt to js and make it into an MMO.

If users could add rooms to the zztmmo universe, complete with zzt-oop scripts, it would be absolutely insanly awesome!
I can sympathise with it being exam week. Don't worry about it.

I think that the problem that you have with academics is that to be good at research you must concentrate on that, and that alone. Teaching gets you nothing, so the good researchers tend to put as little effort into it as possible and the people who spend their time worrying about teaching are left behind on the research front. Not always, but often. So, if someone's interested in talking to you as a student, then they're more than likely poor at research or really not interested in you.

If you can find the research-oriented staff on your campus and talk to them on their own terms, I guarantee that your opinion of 'academics' will change. You'll find a lot of interesting, dedicated people who do wonders on shoe-string budgets, working long hours on things that they find fascinating. Of course, these people tend not to get permanent jobs because of the amount of hideous politics that abounds in the upper echelons of academia...
For me, soulsuck comes from futility. I do my best for my clients, and they inevitably demand - at some point - that I do something that pleases their ego, or a committee, or some internal checklist, but that results in my work being less useful, useable, etc for their end users.

As somebody whose passion IS great software, this makes me extremely unhappy. It's like being stabbed in my core value.

I'm not cut out for consulting.

Working on my own thing, on the other hand, always gives me a sense of purpose. It doesn't matter what I'm doing at the moment, or if it's fun. I have a great capacity for unfun work.

But I don't have anybody forcing me to undo great work.

If I turn out to be wrong & customers all ask for change, first it's my choice - and second, if they find the user experience needs changing, I am probably in a position to grow.

My customers use my work; clients rarely consume what they pay me for.

Make sense?
Would you refer to someone as a Christian Evangelist if they said "Have you read the bible? That's a big book. And there's some crazy stuff in there. I mean we'll think about following it, but we'd rather just follow half of it really to the letter"?

Given how much effort he puts into dissing web standards the scare quotes seem appropriate.
If you want to try the original you can try the open source DreamZZT emulator.

http://dev.c99.org/DreamZZT/

I prefer to use the original (google is your friend) with DOSBox.
The whole point of promoting something to candidate status is to get people to start working on implementations.

http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/Process-19991111/tr.htm...

"A Candidate Recommendation has received significant review from its immediate technical community (resulting from the Last Call). Advancement of a document to Candidate Recommendation is an explicit call to those outside of the related Working Groups or the W3C itself for implementation and technical feedback."
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Reinforcing his point even more.
True - the issue being that the fact that people pirate information is likely to affect the maximum price that others are willing to pay.
While downloading pirated movies is easier and faster than renting a DVD, downloading pirated movies could be easier and faster, too.

It takes a lot of time to find a good torrent and it can take a lot of time to download it, unless it's hot. This means media companies could make the experience much better.

I would gladly pay 2€ per movie if I could legally download it from the legal torrent listings of the movie company's video rental site instead of trying out several Pirate Bay hits in parallel. The resulting video would be a simple .avi file that you can view on any player without any DRM involved. If I can't finish the movie right away, I could do that next week. (I already do the same with rental DVDs.) Thanks to torrents, they wouldn't even have to pay much for the upload bandwidth.

Some people would keep the copies, some people would even distribute the copies. But this is nothing new, it happens already.

However, I wouldn't keep a copy for too long because I don't want to waste time and effort in storing copies of movies that I can redownload for another 2€. It's my guess that most people would fall into this category.

It's all about how easy the access to the movies is. If legal access is easier than illegal access, then there may be a thousand Pirate Bays and people will still use the legal source.
Right, but you're forgetting one thing. Decentralized works for technical problems, not social problems. People fled from the decentralized alt.* on Usenet to centralized Lifejournal where they had more control over their experience. A decentralized social network would be a sewer.
I didn't get that sense from the article - but it wouldn't work for everyone, anyway. My consulting work was mostly designing intranets for megacorps (including Bear Stearns), or Twitter/social media visualiAtion/sensemaking art pieces for their marketing depts.

I could turn the latter into a product, but that'd be defeating the point.

Now my work is focused on making small biz software that does a fabulous job and makes people happy.
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Will all of the hardware features function properly in a unix (or unix-like) OS? That's the apple laptop feature I'd like to see their competitors copy.
uh, at least two of the posters are easy to create in "normal" css too...
That brings in an entirely different human faculty (morality?). And in terms of serial killers, abnormally functioning. The focus of my comment was on people who are fairly normal in this regard. The comparison is silly without mentioning this.
That COULD be - but I also found that, after quitting consulting, my energy level & my ability to tackle things shot waaaaaay up. I actually did my back taxes & accounting, which I had not been able to face before.

I think, for a lot of people, when you stop violating your "core value" for the sake of money, it gives you a new lease on life.

I look at it as managing energy. Some things drain energy. Some things give back more energy than they take. Doing work you believe in, even if the work at hand is
totally uninteresting, generates energy rather than sucking it.
The first thing I noticed: it looks like a HP laptop. So I agree with you.
checkout freshbooks.com .
This site is literally brand new and it's a tmp domain. Wasn't intended for public consumption yet :)

The phrase is a reference to all your base are belong to us.

If anyone is interested in helping though, please let me know.
Expense is not necessarily in absolute terms, it's relative in my case. I outright refuse to buy label albums because I won't support the music industry as-is, I'll only buy music if the people who made it get the vast majority of the money. Have you read Steve Albini's take on the music industry? It is entirely accurate, and I will never put my money into keeping that system alive just on principle. Anyone who has ethical problems with piracy but not the music industry either doesn't know the music industry, or doesn't know anything much about anything, IMHO.

PS: Last I heard, when you take a Gallardo that you're not entitled to take, the original one disappears. Piracy is not the same as theft.

PPS: I say all this as a semi-pro musician trying to make it myself, and not quite managing it yet. I don't begrudge people who've downloaded my music without paying for a second.
Not bad but the author just makes it way complicated and sailing has been sort of understood for a few thousand years.

Sails work not the way you learned in primary school, a broad sheet and some wind (normally a fan) behind it. Sailboats have a headsail and the mainsail. The headsail channels the wind into the mainsail and it generates lift, but at a 90° angle it becomes thrust to a sailboat.

Want to go faster? Deploy the spinnaker (the huge bubble-like canvas) and it lifts the front of the boat out of the water and reducing drag. You can continue jibing but most people stop here because to change direction you have to take down and reconfigure the spinnaker.
This all goes away when software patents do, right?

Something I haven't heard much about lately is x264. Is a H.264 license required to use x264 in some situations?
I think the scientific term for this guy is "Crazy MOFO".

Not clear on the liquid nitrogen test. How exactly did he deposit it into his mouth ? And given the severe irregularity of the tongue, there surely were multiple points of contact not protected by the vaporized nitrogen.

Anyone know of Videos of such an experiment ?
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How many e-mail do you receive that appear to come from your friends, but don't? For me, that's none.

Diaspora server will be the same. Your random 419 scammer won't be able to make a lot of friends if people are a little careful. Add PGP keys and a proper web of trust, and the scammer won't be able to spoof any identity at all.
Ah right. I realised in bed that what I guessed was totally wrong
I feel Alienware too is a desirable laptop albeit its domain is quite narrow [and yes the HP laptop looks a clone to me, physically at least]
Good luck getting Joe Public to get their heads around this - have you seen how they handle anything even remotely like Bayesian maths?
FWIW, I have one and love it. SSD, high res, long battery, looks nice.
FCC on net neutrality: yes we can
Canonical explains Ubuntu unfree video choice
i cant tell if its antinode or what, but the server is randomly dying serving the static content. its not outputting any error messages either.

i'm going to have to run ab or tsung against it later to pinpoint the problem :-(

edit: just updated from 1.92 to 1.93...

i dont think it could be an antinode problem because the way im hosting this is that antinode is a child process of the application host. if antinode was crashing it would just restart gracefully, instead of the whole server is going down

edit 2: seems to be working now.....we'll see
work well with the mouse and keyboard

Actually, a game being PC exclusive plays a part in my game purchasing decision. Not because of the control, though I have at least two console ports with absolutely HORRENDOUS (un-remappable..) controls (one even tells me to press the green A button to continue...), but rather that I find most (though obviously not all) console games of the kinds of games I like seem to lack depth. I don't know if they cant fit the content into RAM or what (Im sure that cant be it), but for some reaosn a lot of console games feel kinda cheap and lacking to me... I can only assume that its just in my head...

Also, some, though again not all, obviously, console games don't let me raise the resolution over the low low HD.
"Isn't that how our economy works? You either have the money for something and you buy it or you don't have to money so you don't get it."

Or you find a way to get it cheaper. Countless innovations throughout history have their roots in someone wanting something, but not being able to afford it. Piracy is just an unfortunate side-effect of this driving urge.
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Social Networking Market Study (2010-2014) By The Radicati Group Released
What do you call Frodo if he starts smoking? A bad hobbit.
Senator caught watching porn on Senate floor
The 'cube faces' map (http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_450.png ) is quite useful. Data, large and huge image links included in post.

I see no reason for the qualms in putting it in the shop as a poster. (I also contributed a few answers.)

P.S. A few years ago, Tim Bray took a whack at slicing through the RGB color cube: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/19/RGBPlane
Finally! I've been waiting for someone to do something like this, and was even thinking about trying to make something similar myself recently. How hard can it be? Probably not very, compared to other projects I'm working on.

I'm sure that it's not just tech geeks who would like to have some modest amount of privacy online. Just declaring that "Privacy is dead. Get over it" may be ok for a few exhibitionists and philosophers, but in the real world people do want and expect some level of privacy - especially when it comes to things like medical conditions or relationships.
You're taking selective quoting by a tabloid as proof of anything? Or do you only do that when it supports your preconceived notions?