skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can avoid the waste of space implied by the circles by using ½×1 rectangles instead: http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2007-March...

The interesting thing about the original technique (to me) is that you can do the decryption without a computer. If you want to do this in color, I think you need to use the LCD approach of having red, green, and blue subpixels next to each other.
I'm not assuming anything, I'm just curious if that is also part of the story.
In a way, though, thats kind of the point. The whole idea of Chrome OS is that the browser IS the operating system.
There is very little in the world that is "new". Most of what is purported as new is really an old idea that has been re-worked in to a new medium, or an amalgamation of old ideas. This is not a bad thing. Henry Ford may have modernized automobile production, but he wasn't the last guy to start a car manufacturer. Many have come and gone since.
Expanding this a bit, the State of California is another "company" that misses payroll. If they don't have a budget passed by their June deadline, State workers may get paid in IOUs or simply get paid minimum wage until a budget is passed. They do get their full back pay once a budget is passed, but the state cannot pay them more than minimum wage until they have a budget.

Of course, these days California might belong in the "about to fail" group.
"Incredibly minor": not even close. This is the very worst sort of change to have to make, because you can't do it automatically, and doing it manually is fraught with opportunities for bugs.

Not to mention that the natural pedagogical order will change in several cases that a simple "translation" wouldn't reflect. A lot of CS2 books in Java---especially two or three years ago---spent a lot of time and trouble showing how to build a generic linked list using Object, casts and all, and then as a little addendum, introduced "generics" that let you use a specific type. By translating the book from old Java to Java 1.5 without rewriting it, they were losing pedagogical opportunities and introducing confusion. Or the CS2 book in Java that used .clone() all over the place: wtf, until you realise that it's been translated from an equivalent C++ book that used copy constructors a lot. Laaaaame.

So yeah, the publisher that treats this as an "incredibly minor change" is one whose books you should avoid.
BTW, it's touted.
I don't think the term "social networking" is amenable to a formal, logical definition. It's mostly a category used to describe sites like Facebook, MySpace, or Loopt (previously Friendster and Orkut) so any site or service resembling those would be social networking. (Please refer here for the type of theory I am applying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_theory)

So far the most successful of those sites is Facebook; Facebook is difficult to use if one is paranoid about one's privacy. None of the other partial or past successes were successful due to their exceptional concern for privacy. One does not join a site designed for sharing things with other people in order to hide things from other people.
The "our" translation is just convention, not actually there in the latin.
Watch for any of Dr. Daniel G. Amen's programs on PBS or read his books (Magnificent Mind at Any Age, Change your Brain, Change your Life, etc.). I've found the knowledge he shares to be incredibly useful, and practical.
A great value-add to this would be if it would start a service on some remote server and let you view the output there, perhaps charging you for the feature.
My http://github.com/darius/tush has a different take on literate shell scripts, for a different purpose (quick-and-dirty testing).
Facebook's not Google-sized... sure, but Facebook's not exactly tiny, either. I bet his team at Facebook will be at least as big as his Chrome team was at Google... and I'm sure he'll have to conform to "The Facebook Way of Doing Things." Honestly, I'm not seeing the difference, other than the pre-IPO potential.
$1m is a "seed round" these days? The mind boggles. In any case, congratulations!

I find it fascinating how crowded the local advertising space seems to be, but different approaches seem to work in different places.
Wavelet Analysis for Dummies
I wanted to do this before I go and get a job.
Glarg. Looking at the "Summary of Material in Chapters 1-3", it sure looks more difficult than the initial material for calculus based classical mechanics (e.g. Newton's laws).

I've already done introductory classical mechanics and E&M/optics many years ago, so maybe I'll give this a try, but I'd be interested in any data from those who don't have that background.

Also, it occurs to me that this is likely pretty much a course for physics majors or others needing that sort and level of material. There are lots of fields where you only need introductory classical mechanics and E&M, maybe some quantum mechanics, but e.g. special relativity is highly optional (although it is said it can be useful in teaching E&M: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_electromagnetism).
Young Guns: the Valley's Teen Tech Execs
Wikileaks Fails “Due Diligence” Review
I just finished reading the MSFT blog post that this TechCrunch piece got its info from. I then went to nytimes.com and an ad on the site was "While you were reading this, 21 people bought Windows 7...Click here to learn more" and it takes you right to the MSFT blog with these numbers. I don't think this site and these numbers are a professional way to run a marketing campaign. Especially when your campaign lists net income on it and compares it with two of your growing, trendy competitors. It just feels...tacky. And that is coming from a user who switched to Windows 7 after using OSX for 4 years.
Expanding on this, the fact that they've done it before is actually an advantage to you: now you know exactly what you can do to make it better. Improvement can always be made.
Dude the website is bad ass.. you did a good job with getting us in asap now make it sticky and get a hooker in there!

(figuratively speaking of course)
More IT means lower salaries for uneducated workers
Awesome flash beatbox synthesizer
I have a former-SERO (Sprint Employee Referral Offer) plan, now known as Everything Data Plus 500.

You can get that via instructions at http://www.cellfanatic.com/2008/07/24/sprint-sero-plans-now-... (See the image for "Russ McGuire"'s info as your referree).

I got my EVO at Google I/O and so when I called up to put the phone on my plan they didn't ask what phone I had and so didn't make me take their kinda pointless $10 EVO tax. I've heard long-standing customers can usually ask retentions to drop it.

I also have an employer discount on there, but they now appear to be hard to get applied on already discount plans. So YMMV. Good luck

I have my phone rooted, so I can run the open source wifi tether and not need to pay Sprint to use the on that comes with the phone.

Also, it's all still cheaper than AT&T
Moreover, even the grown-up VS is free for many students (and cheap for the rest), and with BizSpark they have a discount for startups too. I don't think dev tools are Microsoft's problem right now.
Obviously JavaScript: the good parts is a piece of seminal work and really got people to think of JavaScript as a respectable technology. As well JavaScript the definitive guide is good. Further, I generally recommend that people learn jQuery or Dojo first and then dip into pure JavaScript. The reason being, is that the code base has been heavily peer reviewed, most bad practices get rejected from commits. As well, most of the documentation, uses sound patterns. Think of it as coding JavaScript with training wheels. It will focus your learning on the good parts of JavaScript.
Interesting, but as the article says, it's a young field. Far too young to draw any meaningful conclusions, but...certainly interesting.
Yup. I got one of those in Australia as well.
I think what you're "feeling" is a simple matter of disconnecting your UI thread from the "do stuff" thread. It's not the waiting that aggravates us most, it's the fact that the waiting bits drastically slow down, if not disable our ability to do other things in the meantime.
Reminds me of Minority Report.
For web stuff, certainly. If you're doing e.g. a web framework and don't have a good page, my interest starts to wane. It's either github/bitbucket/etc. or a visually pleasing home page.

For C libraries and similar low-level stuff? Don't really care about the layout, as long as it isn't red text on a blue background or looks like a geocities page.

Ceterum censeo: Presentations with Comic Sans don't sell anything. I'm looking at you, Mr. Cardelli.
Granted this isn't an issue for most mainstream users, but this would put my company (Wacom) out of business. Not all input devices are keyboards or mice; not all applications can get by with only network and limited disk access. Not all computers are iPhones and iPads.
IE9: Big leap forward, and how we can help the Microsoft inertia
Google Docs now on mobile browsers
If entrepreneurs never pursued their dream just because someone else had already done it, we wouldn't have some of the most important innovations. Some of the greatest companies grew not out of a need for something that didn't exist, but out of a need to do it better. If you have an idea and can execute it better, or in a new, needed way, then you should absolutely do it. Pursue it with everything you have. You're an entrepreneur, after all.
I found the conclusion of the article to be a bit much. The entire article reads as a science/human interest piece on this guy, and then the conclusion is, "Should we feel empathy towards murderers and rapists due to neuroscience?"
You know, it doesn't take that much time to upload a torrent of some MP4s to The Pirate Bay or LegalTorrents or whatever.
Pornographers next to dump Flash for HTML5
The rumor that I've heard is that Microsoft sold a bunch of support contracts for IE 6 with huge potential penalties if Microsoft failed on its end. This gave them huge financial incentives to support the quirks of that browser for as long as those contracts were still valid.
I'm often annoyed that between language theory and language implementation there is the trouble of lexing and parsing. Both are complex and take a lot of time and know-how (at least for me as they never work right the first time), and it's not until you have those done that you can actually work on language features.

Lisp is handy from it's data-is-code mentality it already has a general-purpose parser built in. It's something that is fairly easy to implement for functional languages which is much harder to implement for OOP languages.
>It's all about IPS or Super AMOLED displays now.

Pretty bizarre way to differentiate generations.
To pay the salary of the people working on the site?
It only depends on how you look at it. Someone born with any disability has the cards stacked against them, but it doesn't necessarily define their entire life. People just tend to focus on it because it's a huge 'difference' that they, themselves, don't have to deal with.
I truly disagree with just about every assertion in those slides. I use Windows because I feel in control.

I really don't like it when Microsoft decides to add a feature on the assumption that I'm an idiot.
Self-contained installations are an absolute critical must in the evolution of Windows. It's downright embarrassing how installing even a simple app will spray files all over your filesystem diarrhea-style, making it impossible to remove (sometimes even by using the uninstaller!)

So far Apple hasn't really enforced the app-container design pattern very strictly, though I think they ought. Adobe is the most egregious violator of this - they spew files all over the MacOS filesystem and require their proprietary installer to do anything to the app.

On top of this idea is the necessity to remove the registry altogether.
I was simply stating that Oracle already has an Express edition, since you mentioned you thought they were going to turn MySQL into a SQLServer Express-type product. I actually agree with your overall point. It's definitely not in Oracle's favor to improve MySQL or attempt to increase its use. If anything, they will continue to have a free, community edition, of MySQL, and then probably also spin off a commercial version targeted to those that don't need the full power of an Oracle database.

Oracle seems to make a majority of its money in support contracts, not licensing. I think they could do quite well if they released a commercial version of MySQL and sold support for it. (They may already do this, I'm not sure.)
Aiming To Monetize The Social Web
Not necessary, there are already tons of other linkfarms and spammers that can "fill the void"
Create a distributed face book using Tonido p2p Platform will be cool? every house will have a social networking device :)
Newspapers aren't exactly in a "growth industry" ... I'm trying to see how this threatens the Yellow Pages to any degree.
Are you feeling depressed and uninspired in general?

Often I find that when I'm not into what I'm doing in my life at that time, I begin to lose the mental energy to form brilliant, creative, highly structured thoughts. Once I get "the rush" again, I can barely turn off the spigot of my thoughts.

Perhaps take a week in a very different setting and reconsider what you're focusing your attentions on.
No. The internet is a big place and there is room for multiple competitors. If someone else is "doing it," than the idea has been proven to be lucrative.

Regarding investors, if this is a web app, IMO, you should have an alpha version with good traction before raising money.
Things I'd appreciate:

#Different colors for people in chat (just assign randomly from a few distinct colors, or let people choose)

#Bold the chat from my Facebook friends

#Let me tab complete names

#have it beep when someone uses my name and make that line visually distinct.
How Apple avoids paying taxes in CA
I'm learning how to code right now too and it's been frustrating to find resources that truly start at the beginning without assuming you know things from other languages. Right now I'm looking into using Google App Engine and python and these are the best resources I have found:

-MIT open courseware offers a FANTASTIC introductory course using python with video lectures which are nice since I get tired of reading 600+ page books.
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

-Another resource that I found very helpful is a book called Head First Java, I'm not really into Java but the first few chapters give a great overview of Object Oriented programming. I wasn't sure what the difference between a class and object were, and I was unsure about other very basic questions. This book answered all of those questions, and it's written in a very entertaining style.

-I'm also reading a book called "using Google app engine" also starts from the beginning, and introduces all the technologies that go into Google App Engine. I found that book on gigapedia.org btw.

-I tried zed shaw's learn python the hard way book. I've only done the first few examples so I don't have an opinion on it yet. But so far I think it's a good resource for short little exercises to learn your way around python syntax, but I definitely needed more of a programming background which is where all the other resources I mentioned above fill in the gap.

by the way i would definitely recommend python over other languages I've looked into because at least as a beginner, python syntax isn't complicated to learn. But if you are interested in learning say Java, there is a Stanford online course that might be good, so just look at their online course offerings.

A final python resource which I found was Guido Van Robot where you basically control a robot in a maze using python. I haven't looked at it too closely yet but it seems entertaining and helpful for the beginner. If you're familiar with Karel the Robot, Guido Van Robot is the exact same thing, except using python.
http://gvr.sourceforge.net/
Eat better, exercise, socialize. I don't know the specifics but maybe you're depressed. These things will help. You said you want to you want to take care of this before getting a job but a job itself might help.

Make sure you are doing something productive with your time. If you want to get it sorted out before getting a job, try freelancing, consulting, tutoring or volunteering. Be around other people and feed off their energy. Doing nothing productive with your time will make you depressed and could definitely be the cause of a cloudy mind.
first impression about what might be wrong here:

1. just moved into offices, now you have a burn rate and clock is ticking, increasing pressure. maybe should have stayed working at home/Starbucks

2. have an intern and one who needs guidance. why this early? the more people you have the more complex things get, and in the case of your tech co-founder sounds like a greater burden on him. he may not like coming in now when the intern is there because the intern will interrupt him and so he'd prefer to work at home or at later times of the day

3. he's your 50% co-founder and main tech guy, NOT your employee. if I were in that situation, I'd consider myself as not really having a boss. at best, a partner. it's true he needs to deliver and you need to have a mutually trusting relationship or it's going to fail. there are many downsides to a startup but one upside is the ability to have no bullshit, no bureaucracy, no boss, and work whenever and wherever and however you want, as long as the work gets done and you move ahead at a sufficient rate. If you really and truly think he's not pulling his own weight then the earlier you can part ways with him the better. None of us here can truly know enough details about your situation to say for sure whether this situation is your fault or his fault, but if the trust is gone it may be best to bail.
No not depressed. As for inspired, no im certainly not inspired. Cant say I have been in a very long time. I can create complex thought in verbal/written debate, but thats because I do that a lot.
Two things come to mind:

1) Program again, as much as possible. Like any other skill, you forget details of things as you spend time away from programming. Sharpen up again by programming some more.

2) Vitamin D is key in being able to focus, make sure you are getting enough vitamin D... this is true for eating well and getting plenty of sleep in general :) And lay off the pot ;P
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It could work if you weighted the votes by those who had also selected favourite genres that you like - from say your last.fm history or manually selected.

I'm always extremely motivated by music related ideas. Have you been involved in a financed startup before?
Really? The YP industry lost 25% market share last year. Print YellowPages is gone in 5 years. Local businesses literally hate YP reps because they only enter their market once a year looking to collect their "protection money". Contrast that to their Newspaper reps who they actually like and have an industry average of 10 years experience.
The problem with Windows is that there isn't a lot of API for very important system tasks. Instead, everything is held together by convention -- a DLL copied to the system directory, a registry key, shortcut files, etc. This has made it much harder for Microsoft to adjust Windows to better handle a much more user-hostile world. It has also made the software more brittle because they simply aren't forced to follow the convention.

For example, installing and uninstalling software is broken in Windows because there's no accounting by the operating system as to what was changed -- if an uninstaller is broken the user is pretty much stuck. If applications were forced to install themselves completely using a system API, then Windows could track the changes and simply undo them itself. This could be pretty low-level (it doesn't have to be MSI, for example) but if you want to write a file into the /Programs/ folder, you need to use an API that does just that. And if Microsoft decides to rename that folder again you are guaranteed that every application will continue to work.

This can be equally true of setting file associations, adding desktop/startmenu icons, the notification area, and auto updators. Applications have been allowed to basically spam your computer with icons and background tasks. This doesn't necessarily need to be sandboxed out of existence but instead held behind an API that empowers the user. Mobile operating systems already do much of this by asking you at install/runtime what access an application should have and then providing a system control panel for adjusting this access after the fact. Wouldn't it be great if there was a control panel that listed every background task started by Windows with the program it belongs to, a description, and the option to turn it off?
Anyone knows if it supports flexible-box model?
Exercise and nutrition are huge. If you are musically inclined (or not even) playing/learning an instrument has been shown to expand the number of connections in your brain.

I would also try meditation, there was several recent articles about how quickly (like 4 days) ones mind becomes 'sharper' from just a little bit of daily practice.
RAID vs SSD vs FusionIO
Seems like a smart business move to me. Are we suppose to be upset about this?
Obama Announces Plans to "Unleash" 500 MHz of New Wireless Spectrum
s/suggest/suspect/
isn't this the kid that offered a tc post for a laptop?
For good or bad, Microsoft has committed to backwards compatibility. That means that all the techniques that work for installing apps now will work until Windows 7 is no longer supported.

My team has put a lot of effort into making our install more contained, but certain things still need to go in system locations. Registering a handler for a file extension means writing to the registry, as does (ironically) registering for visibility in the Add/Remove Programs UI.

I'm certainly jealous of the bundle system on OS X, but it doesn't solve everything. Device drivers still need to associate hardware devices with a handler, which we have to run code for on OS X.
Local is a _really_ hard market, and having cash in the bank removes atleast one big obstacle which threatens your survival.

That being said it seems like since there's so many angels around these days, raising money for a startup perceived to be hot is not that hard. The problem with raising a large round is obviously that you're either diluting yourself too much early on or raising the valuation too high for the next round. But hey, if you need the cash, why not?
Hm. Complaining when a site that is designed to release information... releases information?
Single Chinese facility has more DNA sequencing power than the entire USA.
15 minutes of plain old clear-the-mind meditation every morning (or as often as you can). Get an egg-timer to assist. The mind is a muscle.

Get appropriate exercise and pay attention to your diet - this becomes more and more important as you age.
Get appropriate sleep.

Do some programming on the side, just for fun if you can - you stay sharp at things due to practice, not due to innate unchangeable ability. If you're stuck for ideas, pick any online programming contest - there's a bunch that run continuously and automatically - and endless set of skill-sharpening questions to pick from and work up.
You should go out there and compete. You could say myspace was
"doing" what facebook does. Stay focused on your goal and build on your competitive advantage. Don't get scared out of the market. Competition only invites innovation and a healthy challenge.