skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure either, given that you're not willing to defend the main point of your reply.
mobile apps "coming"

http://blog.mog.com/post/611539321/mogs-iphone-android-apps-...
Even though two users have already raved about Beyond Compare, I can't stop myself but join the chorus and announce that BC3 is FANTASTIC! If a text compare program doesn't have a 'bottom' status bar like Beyond Compare, I won't use it. Period.

Check this snapshot to see what I am talking about: http://i.imgur.com/tLjCr.png
You must do a lot more attachments than me--my All Mail folder in IMAP has 22,019 messages. Each of your messages is taking up 1/3 of a MB, yikes.
If you re-read the passage, you might note that quality was only one of the points raised. (And, in my opinion, not the key point of the argument.)
This article has it exactly right. I switched to Mac OS X because X11 is such a pile of crap (for users and programmers alike!), and I've never looked back.
I know nothing about the film industry, but that kind of clause seems to make a lot of sense. Major actors aren't really replacable in the middle of a movie... you'd either need to find a dead-on look-a-like/sound-a-like, cancel the project, re-write the script somehow to limit that characters involvement to what has been shot so far (not always possible), or re-shoot all his/her scenes, none of which sound terribly appealing and all of which sound expensive.

I'm sure you thought of those issues while writing your post, but sometimes I like to think outloud :)
Would writing the actual simulator in C and running the python code for the cells from there be a good option in your opinion? That would make integration of other languages a lot easier, too.
Amazon S3 & SQS US East outages
Amazon S3 US East experienced "Elevated Error Rates" from 2:01 PDT to 2:30 PDT.

Amazon SQS US East experienced "Elevated Error Rates" from 2:31 PDT to 2:45 PDT.
WWDC related? Cloud iTunes??
U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Gulf Oil Spill
Once again, McDonald's burgers overseas are different and do include tomatoes (not the BigMac, but other burgers like "McNifica" which is only sold in Mexico and Latin America according to Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_products )
On AppengineJS
"What I find interesting, as a Baby Boomer, is how much the paradigm has changed. When I was a kid, only children who were "hyperactive" were considered to have a problem. People who had trouble concentrating were not considered to have a psychological issue, and of course in those days it was thought that few or no adults had any such issue."

More than likely when you were growing up, homosexuality was considered a mental illness. We've learned a lot since then. :-)

"There does seem to have be evidence that many people grow out of either the hyperactive or inattentive type of ADD/ADHD, and that impulse control and attention focus are learnable, but apparently they are more learnable for some people than for others under matched training conditions."

You don't grow out of bonafide ADHD. It's with you for life much like OCD or bipolar disorder. You can learn to cope with it better, but you can't really make it go away (even with drugs though they help a lot).
DMO to SMO
But basic UI evidently can't compete equally with a more stylized UI, as the iPhone shows pretty clearly

Support that. I can name several apps on my iPhone that are hardly high-style, yet useful and well received (Quickoffice, iFitness, Yelp!... just to name 3 on my home screen).

Larger than this. This is something that vector graphics solves extremely well. You want really nice images at multiple resolutions? Illustrator is your friend.
I agree that the situations are similar, but like you said, the fact that the training you are receiving has a market-value outside the company and is worthwhile elsewhere does make a difference. The biggest difference, though, seems to be the clarity. In the military, the terms are very clearly spelled out up-front. If his situation is the same, I can't say I feel terribly bad for him, but if they were "fuzzy", which is how it sounds, its definitely shady behavior.
Apple could put a badge on the App Store listing saying that it has been discontinued, etc. It would only show up for current users anyway and right now you have no way to communicate with your users about what happened (you don't even get to know who they are to contact them after Apple pulls you).
Dup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=943185
Quick note: got a 404 not found error when I tried to access the ratecard page: http://hackermonthly.com/ratecard
I coined this term in April in the comments section of a post regarding Kyle Bragger's "Facebook Like Bookmarklet" (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_like_anything_on...). Glad to see it's finely catching on.
I'm not sure which part of my response you consider not defending.

Throwing MA out there as 'proof' that the government can drive insurance companies out of business when the MA legislation has done no such thing, and even if it had driven companies out of business, the model and environment for the MA legislation is so different from the ACA legislation is hardly support for your argument.

If you want more specific points on how ACA is a net-win for the insurance companies, here:
http://industry.bnet.com/healthcare/10002208/insurance-compa...
Maybe that's the reason you didn't like it. For me at the time, it was about the pain of having to write for two systems.
Results are in for "Quit Facebook Day" (May 31) - almost no one did
Pretty funny. Although I kinda hoped it was something else. Like a cool point of sale system that could be extended by its operators to provide fun new functionality with an intuitive graphical interface.
They are not licensed by all the major music labels like lala was. Not a 'legal' replacement.
> “It’s essentially a dull, boring task,” he said of the Quotient system, “so do you want to medicate your child to pay attention to dull, boring tasks?”

Absolutely. Real life isn't always fun and games. Of course, medication won't make your child enjoy those dull, boring tasks. But it will at least make them capabale of paying attention to them.
They weren't that great anyways, you had to pay for listening after the first time. This is fine with me, but think about all the teenagers out there, I am sure they have found other ways to access music given their practically zero income. Once I talked to my 14 year old niece, and she told me none of her friends use limewire or similars, they use myspace and youtube downloaders.
I think that the effort from Apple to shut down paid competitors may not be the solution to their root cause...
Actuarial science should be advertised with a disclaimer to this affect. I have known people who go through large programs to find out their city of 3+ million has only one actuarial position open a year.
What's their issue with desktop type apps? It looks quite nice actually, I could see enjoying the iPad in a stand next to my computer with beautiful photos and passive information displayed. I guess I'll have to make my own with Javascript.
The other day I downloaded a single torrent that had nearly 1500 science fiction novels in it. The intersection between this torrent and the titles in my bookcases was about 75% (40+ year old collection.) I did spot checks for torrents of random non sf titles, not to download, just to check availability, and the hit rate, with minimal searching, was about 50%. A little googling also found Mega-whosis downloads for lots of titles, including a large collection about half the size of the torrent I downloaded previously.

A spot check for technical books, some within the year, turned up about a 40% success rate. The older the book, the more likely I was to find a copy, down to about 5 years or so ago. Older tech books are available, but only titles that are big names in their fields. I did find one rather nice torrent listing older science books.

I would say that the online book piracy movement is rolling along pretty well. And this is in support of people willing to put up with the awfulness of reading on a laptop or desktop screen. IMHO, the iPad is _really_ nice for novels, short stories, comics, and manga. Less good for highly formatted technical and illustrated books; but still better than using a laptop.
Same DNS problem from Optus in Australia, though server requiring hostname is readily solved by entering details in hosts.txt
The solution is rather simple - start with a high-res asset, put it in the drawable-hdpi folder, then downscale by 66% to get the mid-res assets.

This technique doesn't work for pixel art, which can only be scaled up by whole number values. In certain cases where a display's resolution isn't a whole number multiple of the base resolution, you can get away with slightly shrinking or extending the viewable area. But 480x320 to 800x480 is a particularly inconvenient shift, as assets cannot be scaled up without incurring a large loss in viewable area, and they cannot be kept the same without requiring a large increase in viewable area.

Incidentally, this is what iPhone developers will have to start doing this summer. The new iPhone's screen is 2x the resolution. Assuming Apple wants to keep the iPhone forward-compatible and run OS3-based apps, that means image resources will be upscaled by the phone and look fuzzy, or developers will have to update their apps with higher-res assets.

Not true at all. It would only look fuzzy if the screen size were significantly larger. But in fact the screen size is roughly the same, only with a much higher PPI. Because the new resolution is a whole number multiple of the old, all apps can be trivially scaled with 2X nearest-neighbor scaling and look exactly the same as they would on a 480x320 screen.

As for framerates, you'll never get away from dealing with different hardware, no matter if you do Android, Web, Desktop or iPhone development. I have a first-gen iPhone and you have no clue how frustrating (ie slow) it is running many apps on it.

I actually do have a first-gen iPhone. In my experience, it hasn't been that slow for the majority of apps I want to use. But that's sort of irrelevant. As far as a developer is concerned, they only need to own two devices (three after the new iPhone is released) to capture the significant variations in hardware: a first-gen or 3G iPhone, and a 3GS. (Alternatively, and more cheaply, a first-gen and third-gen iPod touch, if you have no need for camera, GPS, etc.)

And it's true that you can never get away from dealing with different hardware, but the whole point is how much different hardware you have to deal with. Apple has been very careful about keeping that to a minimum while satisfying demand for better hardware.
"I would suggest going above and beyond your job description to create value for your employer."

Why in the world would one want to do that? It's not like you are going to get paid more or get more free time for going the extra mile.
I can appreciate why Mozilla doesn't want to standardize, I'm just slightly weary of seeing yet another vendor-specific browser extension come out. Let's face it: it's going to be years before there's a standard for these things, and in the meantime the average web developer is faced with a stark choice of implementing nothing or two-and-a-half versions of a site.
Very cool. I look forward to a Chrome extension that automatically replaces flash objects with this.
I don't disagree with anything you've said.

To me the article didn't read like an anti-"Get rich on the internet" which is why I've questioned its premise that people don't enjoy getting started.
limewire?
Is it really that small a gain? I am now with 6 open tabs in Firefox, one terminal with four tabs, a music player decoding an internet radio stream, an E-mail client and Emacs with two windows open and a Python process running in it. There is also a desktop CouchDB running somewhere (and that's a highly parallelizable animal) that deals with lots of the data my system generates.

If for nothing else, having more cores would prevent context switches on the two cores I have.

Sadly, it's no surprise much software isn't designed for multiprocessors. Prior to Windows XP taking over Windows 9x as the dominant OS for desktops, it would make no sense to develop a mainstream x86 designed for multi-threading apps - just consider the failure of the Pentium Pro (designed to run 32 bit apps in a 16-bit era). Processors and programs have been optimized for so long to cope with mono-threading OSs that it will take a while to get rid of this legacy and to step into this parallel future. There is a good reason why most desktop software is not a good fit with parallel processors - until recently there were few desktop 4+ thread machines.

This is what I mean when I say Microsoft held back the PC's evolution for a decade. I used 64-bit processors (Alpha) and multi-processor desktop machines (MIPS, PPC and SPARC) years before similarly equipped PCs appeared in the market.
I'd guess, as a co-owner of a shop myself, that the reason medium sized retailers spend a lot on POS is the same reason they don't represent themselves in court. It looks easy, you might get away with doing it cheaper, but there's a lot that can go wrong and a lot at stake if things don't pan out. Paying someone to pull you out of a hole is more expensive than paying someone else to dig it in the first place.
It's like crunching 50 CPUs on top one memory bus. Even if there are, say, 5 buses (and a thousand pins for them), that's still 10 cores per bus.

Did they say how many threads per core?

I suspect it will be like having 50 286s in the same box...
Tests for AD(H)D focus on 2 different aspects: attention and hyperactivity/impulsiveness. Key to any diagnosis is not the occurrence of individual symptoms, but how many you have in each category, the degree to which you have them, whether they appear in different settings, for longer than 6 months and they are actually life impairing. Simply being forgetful/distracted/dyslexic/argumentative etc by itself isn't a clear cut sign that you have AD(H)D, as they may have entirely different causes.

Slightly unrelated, but if anyone is interested in reading more about the topic, Edward Hallowell's 1994 book Driven to Distraction is a seminal book on the topic and includes some of the classic signs used to analyze the condition.

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

His 2005 follow-up Delivered from Distraction, focuses on how to make the most out of it if you have it and harness your strengths (creativity, charisma, energy, intelligence).
Maybe I gave the wrong impression. Does somebody want to use a blog post in a magazine that probably won't pay much in royalties anyway? I'd probably let them use it for free. Does say Newsweek want to use it? You bet your ass they'd better pay me for it.

I suppose it's less about wanting to get paid for my work as much as it is wanting to be able to control whether or not I get paid for my work. If I think that somebody has a valid reason to use my blog posts, then I might let them. But I do want them to get my permission first. Maybe some people are comfortable with giving anyone and everyone the ability to use their writings in whatever commercial environment they want to. I personally am not.

...but regardless "It'll make the publishers' lives easier!" isn't a very convincing argument to me. :-)
I second this enthusiastically. If the workload is not taxing for you, instead of finding things to fill your spare time, just do the things you have to do as "inefficiently" as possible. One of the barriers to trying new things is the drop in efficiency (like switching to a new editor, as per the suggestion before). If you can take the productivity hit, this can be a great opportunity. Frustrated by a lack of feature in the editor? Rather than work around it, fix it and submit a patch. Keep using KDE (or whatever) but switch your locale to French. If you don't already and you are allowed to do so, switch your version control to git - that should mess with your mind for a good while :-)

Basically if you genuinely can't leave, just try and make it interesting for yourself and make a habit of stepping outside your comfort zone - otherwise your brain will rot.

The other issue is your actual project. If you have scope, overspec it. Only you will know, but that should give you back some pride in your work. If you are taking shortcuts, don't. If you are not commenting and documenting properly, do. If you can make the code faster, speed it up. If you can deliver knobs and whistles, go for it.
Funny metaphor, and very accurate. However, HTML5 is like that same treadmill, only that people still have to build the treadmill itself. It's epic work times two.
Don't forget his Six Flags commercials, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDIBTS_xDQ

Or am I the only one who couldn't get past the resemblance?
Leaving immediately would encourage the bank to sell the house as quickly as possible to a new owner.

In many parts of their country, there is a large excess of supply, so it is unlikely that a quick sale is possible. Which means that the house will likely sit on the market for 6-12 months.

In some areas, banks are walking away from properties they foreclosed upon, legally abandoning them. The responsibility for maintaining or demolishing the property then reverts back to the original mortgage holder, who often gets no notice and believed that they had nothing to do with the property since it was foreclosed. Under such circumstances, I think it can make sense for people to refuse to move out: if the house will continue to be an open ended obligation for you, you might as well at least get a place to live out of it. See this article for more information: http://www.cleveland.com/news/index.ssf/2009/07/bank_walkawa...

why fix the roof of a house you are going to be kicked out of

Two reasons. (1) Because you don't like rain water poring over your head while sleeping in bed. No one wants to live in a house where rain water is poring on them. No one wants to live in a house where mold and mildew have taken root from pooling water. And no one wants to share a house with raccoons. (2) Homeowners often develop irrational attachments to the home that they "own"; that is why many people buy homes when doing so makes no economic sense. These irrational attachments may incentivize people to maintain homes when rational calculation suggests they should not. Remember, being a "good" homeowner is a key concept of many people's self-image. Doing things like fixing leaks and tending the yard may continue to matter to them even after they've decided that they're not paying another cent.

Further, leaving immediately would force the bank to mark their assets to market, thereby making it more difficult for them to fool regulators and the public about the state of their balance sheet.

I don't believe this claim is true. Can you cite anything justifying it? In many areas, foreclosure takes a long time because servicers and courts are overwhelmed with volume; this state of affairs benefits banks who can postpone marking their assets properly.

I don't consider lowering prices to be a problem.

Sorry; I misread your comment. Given how little evidence we have that this phenomena affects a significant number of people, I don't find claims that this will materially change market prices to be credible.
Google: Android fragmentation 'is a boogeyman, a red herring' -- Engadget
Now this is a much more convincing argument than your previous one. I might actually give the issue more consideration now. :-)
New site that collects positive and negative movie reviews from twitter
IBM PC compatibles won, and IBM itself was eventually driven out of the market. Similarly, Sony's minidisc was defeated by a coalition of "losers" in nearly every market outside of Japan
Not having a central approval process doesn't have to mean that the marketplace is unnavigable like the Android app store.
Here's How CNN.com Accidentally Published Al Gore's Private Email Address
Large, high-resolution monitor recommendations?
Hi folks.

I'm looking for recommendations for large, high-resolution LCD monitors and wondered if anyone is plugging the gap between the moderate high-res ones (e.g. 23/24" 1920x1200) and the 30" ones (2560x1600).

Is there any such thing? This is for development work but the budget doesn't currently spring for a 30".

Thanks!
Arch Linux is my poison of choice these days -- but what the hell. I have a few gigs to set aside and will try booting this in a VM, see how the ol' boy fits.
'The mathematician sighs. "I'd like to talk to her, but first I have to cover half the distance between where we are and where she is, then half of the distance that remains, then half of that distance, and so on. The series is infinite. There'll always be some finite distance between us."'

I doubt a real mathematician would reason this badly.
Not to beat a dead horse, but they've been promising that feature for Versions at least since July 2008 (that's as far back as I could trace in their Google Groups mailing list). If you're happy with Kaleidoscope's current feature set and will continue to be happy if they never deliver on this promise of future updates, go ahead and buy a license (it does look pretty nice as-is). Just don't hold your breath waiting for that merge feature.
Caring for Your Online Introvert
Google is using iLike now as default for his Google music search.
As a journalist I've seen stuff like this happen. One issue is that journalism is turning into an echo chamber. Media report on issues they've seen elsewhere and then another media reports on what the first one is writing about. The chaining can lead to attribution going missing.

The issue has been discussed amongst journalists in Finland. The current advice is to always try to attribute the originating story, but that can be hard.

Once a story hits it big, most media seem to consider it up for grabs without any attribution. Another big issue is probably cuts in the newsrooms. Original sourcing is harder when you have less people on the floor.

Oh, and Daily Mail are sleazy bastards. I'm not at all surprised that their story contains no attribution whatsoever.
limewire, napster, kazzaa, gnutella, all those things that will be gloriously remembered in the history books :)
A lot of back and forthing of Word documents, some of them 10-20 MBs in size... but hey, it's work, I have to do it.
Do you want a hand with that?

What would we call it? "Work at Work at a Startup"? ;-)
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/product...

is really, really nice. If you find a good sale you can probably have it for around $800-$850. There are probably similar resolution panels for a lower price, but they won't look as good.
How about telling them your previous pay if they agree to tell you how much they paid the person you could be replacing.

I'd be tempted to put down zero - I hope people in the position of reading job applications will understand that this is a piece of valuable information that it is perfectly reasonable to want to keep to yourself.
Thanks for the pick. I will look into it.
That's quite a myopic view of things. Going above and beyond may not offer an immediate pay increase, promotion or more break time, but it will afford him an opportunity to learn new things, show that he is fit for more responsibility, and in the process he'll stand out to all those working around him. All this will increase his chances later down the road of getting where he wants to be. Most importantly, it will address his immediate problem of boredom!

His alternative: Do what his job description says, surf the internet, watch the paint dry... sounds like a real recipe for motivation, excitement, and success.
Seems like a suitable countermeasure would be a localized source of randomized ENF (say a Zener diode in cascade overload in a low-freq oscillator),

I think we have our new line of CSI dialogue right here.

Followed closely by "I think this case just had -- [puts on sunglasses] a shocking new development."
There are the infamous bee dances, if that counts.
#1 proof why Flash isn't needed anymore.