skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hadn't even thought about the accelerometer. That would be useful information to persist as well, and also available on smartphone platforms.
I'm curious as to why we're seeing a large number of 7" tablets and few 10" tablets. Usually there are more than a few hardware manufacturers copying the form-factor of Apple designs very closely.
Bad news about Adobe DOES smell good. Their ubiquitous products with their zero-day vulnerabilities and constantly relentless patches have been a thorn in my side this year.
Remember, most of these won't look so good as body copy on the web: http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/design-for-hackers-why-you-...
The issue of attitude [be it a car driver or a bike rider] is a separate one. It is easy solvable by using AK-47.

The another thing is the issue of mental automaticity of driving, of monitoring of the road situation.
For example, i frequently notice that driving behind a motorcycle on highway i automatically keep
right distance ... to the car in front of the motorcycle.

It is important for the bicyclists to be as noticeable as possible. And to look bigger - i'd paint the whole bicycles itself, including wheels, into extremely noticeable bright colors, may be some blinking in the daylight texture, and would make them fluorescent at night, so that the "automatically driving part of the brain" would pay them more attention.
Missing a closing title tag no? You think that's on purpose?
"it works" to accomplish what?

I can't make a scene or get in the middle of the lane when I'm dead. And at best, I'd be affecting a few drivers a day by yelling at them. Maybe I'd educate some of them. The rest would just conclude that bicyclists are assholes, and every dead one is a net benefit.

Like I said in a different comment, I'll take my paranoid safety now instead of a possible payoff later.
Still, I agree with the parent commentor: you've gotta get off the sidewalk.

Bicycles are vehicles. Sidewalks are not a place for vehicles. It's not fair to pedestrians or yourself. Also if anything were to happen while you were riding on the sidewalk I believe it would be you that would be at fault.
This reminded me of _why's style! :) For a moment I even thought it is really him.
Yes, his name brand is strong enough. Though I guess Knuth doesn't use his CV for getting hired.
everything is marketing :)
#newTwitter and the API
The problem I have with what you said, is the artist knows what they are getting into day one. It's sort of like buying a house that has a leaky roof and then complaining that the previous owner sold you a house with a leaky roof. Yeah the contract might suck, but I have a hard time feeling very sorry for you if you knew about it before you signed on the dotted line. If they didn't know then they are stupid to not have had a lawyer read the contract. If the power dynamic is backwards, as you say, then you should be able to write a better contract. If you can't then distribute yourself. With digital distrobution become a more popular method of getting your music out there, I'd think that the roll of Big Record would begin to diminish.
> I have absolutely no idea how drone programmers behave/get motivation/work.

Very nice resorting to name-calling. Because you can't conceive of someone who likes and is good at programming, but who enjoys other things in his leisure time, you again try to dismiss him with a low-ball insult. Nice work.

I don't know who you are, but you'd do yourself a lot of good to try to understand others better instead of insulting them and writing them off for being different.
How about vs posterous? (Sorry, I should have included it in my first post, but I forgot the name.)
I am a lazy person. So the best thing for me is to use somebody else's template.
Just curious, how much bigger did it make your e-penis to type out programmers in quotation marks?

At the end of the day, it takes all types to make software. Those who build the boxes, those who peer into the depths and improve or maintain the boxes, and those who use the boxes all work together to make great software.
You should also have a look at the currvita package. It's documentation also has some general information about writing CVs.
second the call - "Get off the sidewalk".
B!itching about car menace to bikes while being yourself menace to pedestrians.
Well, I'm sold. I checked out Mongo before, and it was relatively pleasant. But I wonder if Couch is more reliable and mature? I'd love to dive into building a brand new system I have in mind that seems like a good fit for a document database.
The wing movement looks so natural, its even beautiful.
Las dos caras de los superángeles de capital riesgo
I humbly suggest "Everclear"
It made me click all the way through (I laughed at several points) and impelled me to click on his CV. It is fair to say it was marketing that achieved its purpose.
I agree, but the point is it is not a rewrite to add a templating engine to Wordpress; in fact it would be a (relatively) simple additional theme style that could co-exist with the existing PHP themes.
SWIPE & DEPLOY Strictly Accountants ONLY
Not just software-engineering, either; a lot of large engineering companies don't provide much of an engineering career path that doesn't involve being promoted into management. For almost the entire time my dad was at Amoco (later bought by BP), for a few decades, they were discussing implementing a technical career path with some sort of high-level engineering rank, but it somehow never happened. So the top engineers either languished at "senior engineer" (a reasonably high rank, but basically a ~15 years of experience rank, not equivalent to something like IBM Fellow), or else jumped to management, or left to do consulting. One predictable result was a lot of middle managers who were neither good at nor particularly excited about management, and a lack of senior engineers, in particular engineers in the 3rd phase of a project who had actually worked on the 1st and 2nd phases.
never used posterous, but it looks more similar to blogger than wordpress. well suited for churning out a simple blog.
Ops, fixed.
First time I came across a Google page that simply does not work without JS.
Feds’ Guide To Snitching on Your Terrorist Neighbor
That dude next door, man — I used to think he was an OK guy, but now all the bags of fertilizer from Home Depot piled up in his garage are starting to worry me. And what’s with that beard? He’s not a — you don’t think –
It was under construction.
As a buyer of child care, I had a hard time reasoning about the point 'raganwald is making because he is (inadvertantly, I'm sure) parroting an argument that plagues child care provider discussions on craigslist and drives me nuts.

The argument boils down to, "I believe that children are our future, and you drive a BMW so pay me $30/hr."

Yes, child care is a key priority. It's not something one wants to cut corners on. But pricing is based on supply and demand. Complex currents and eddies of value, sourcing, disruptive innovation, and changing requirements define both those terms.

A lowball offer might represent the unrealistic expectation that "my problems" (competing priorities) are "your problems". You can then rightly point out that my problems have nothing to do with how your time should be valued.

But a lowball offer might also represent price discovery. The spot price of child care is at least different from season to season --- which is the typical market cycle for child care --- and probably different from week to week. Discovery is a reasonable way to price child care.

To the craigslist gadflies, I can thus point out that there's an ample supply of dedicated, quality providers --- if you're discriminating and know where to look.[1]

To 'raganwald, I can only say that just as my competing priorities in budgeting headcount aren't your problem, neither is your problem of wanting the market for your services to work like that of a master craftsman my problem. If you're getting outbid and outperformed by cheap interns, the market may have shifted out from under you without you knowing about it.

Just food for thought. However much his clients are paying him, 'raganwald probably doesn't get paid enough.

[1] I think we pay over the market median price, but we love our provider, and will pay a premium for consistency; that premium is attached to a business relationship that took time to form.
I am well acquainted with those numbers. I am also well acquainted with the salary schedule at her district (public record), and since her guild is religiously opposed to merit pay, I can tell you she was making $60k with a fair degree of certainty.
Google Android Hidden Secret Codes
Review our startup: Wibba.com - discover and share great products
we've spent some time developing http://wibba.com as a platform which makes it quick and easy to discover and share cool products online and offline.

share products you think are cool or follow others to keep updated with things that they're loving.

this is a early alpha.

you can share product links, follow others and be followed, link with twitter and more.

there is so much noise out there its impossible to keep updated with everything going on.

I want to follow Scobleizer so I can see all the new apps he's loving, I want to follow a friend whose a DJ to see all the new tunes he's digging. I've got a good friend who works in fashion - I wanna see the trends he's discovering.

We developed this purely for products, not general chatter

would love to hear what you guys think - please bear in minds its really early days.

thanks so much

http://wibba.com
Food Lab: Make Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Machine
Hi Matt Shepperd, did you get any job offers today? :) Nice website btw
I entered an example book for which I got $0. But still I had to go through the same work flow.
Oracle the database isn't really Oracle's main product. They're real product is a bunch of industry specific applications and middleware (and related consulting services) that happens to need a Oracle database to run. So as such they're not really directly competing with SQL server (or postgres or whatever)
Not arguing with the rest of your post, but what would you write a large-scale DBMS with, these days? Surely not jpython?
That website is unchanged since at least 2006, probably 2004.
Design patterns & embedded systems developers
Object pool design pattern must be known by embedded systems developers. Do you think they must know another design pattern ?
I've been following the 5" devices closely for a while now. The iPhone class is just too small for serious work, and only farmers have pockets big enough for 7". Can you elaborate on your time with the Streak? How is typing on that thing? Do you code?
I would love to hear the discussion that took place when they decided how to announce the upgrades to their site. Not a fancy splash page like Blizzard or CCP, not a traditional marketing e-mail, but closing their doors and telling their customers to get lost. And then, psyche!

At least they understand what people want from gaming products (no DRM). Another example of what not to do in marketing.
It seems to work remarkably well. And they do not even use all the tricks imaginable. E.g. you could add lots of more volatile information to the fingerprint, if you also added some statistical intelligence.
My Masters is in Physics. It doesnt really matter. Also you have work ex right? That actually counts for more.

Make sure you get at least a verbal arrangement with them that they will apply for a greencard for you as soon as you start the job with them.

I would even recommend that if they say they cant do that, then tell them you can bear the cost of it. It should be 10K max I think. But its google ... so I think they will surely have a process.
I love the end of the article, where they say that they don't like GOG for doing this for buzz alone, and then announce the interview coming up.
I suppose my question here is such: Does the flapping actually generate enough lift to both sustain and initiate flight? We've had gliders that can stay afloat for ages with the right thermals, but they (like we see in this video as well) require something powered to get them started. It's beautiful, yes, but from what I can see in the video it looks like it's almost entirely aesthetics.
I bet using a small motor, 1/2hp or so, could do wonders in an ornithopter like this. Humans can't sustain that kind of workload for very long.
Yeah, not so fast, font geek. Defend your argument.

Seriously, you think Clarendon is a great "back pocket", "top of my tool drawer" typeface for designers to be using? Because Pitchfork and Ruby Tuesday use it? Put a bevel on Ruby Tuesday's mark and you could add a cowboy hat and a lasso to complete their thought.

Is there a Clarendon revival I'm missing, or are you just jumping on me because you think I'm bashing the typefaces and not the author of this post? You obviously are an expert, and should have no trouble setting me straight.
We develop casual MMOs (think Club Penguin). These are not nearly as complex as a WOW, much closer to Farmville. In our case, like most MMOs, nearly all our messages go back and forth over persistent socket connections, not HTTP requests. Firewalls cause problems and often block persistent connections, but we can get a much much better through put.

For example, we developed a product for Turner on top of our platform. Take a worst case scenario - everyone in the game moves using arrow keys, and they're all moving. A typical room might have 25 people, each broadcasting their location roughly every 0.5 seconds. This location update is broadcast to all 24 other people in the room. So each person generates 2 messages into the server per second, but results in 48 broadcast messages per second. Of course there are 25 people in the room, all of whom are moving. So we have 2 x 25 = 50 messages into the server per second, and 48 x 25 = 1200 out going messages per second.

A typical node of our platform might support 4000 players. If each room supports 25 people then we have 160 rooms. Every second the server needs to broadcast 1200 x 160 = 192,000 or nearly 200,000 messages, and receives close to 8000 messages.

Movement packets are easy. We can route these through the system quickly, but then think about the "slow" requests, such as writes to the game state persistence store (Mongo DB) or slower still, writes to the SQL database.

With 8000 incoming messages, and a typical 64 thread processing pool each thread needs to churn through 125 messages per second. Or one message every 0.008 seconds. Those slow SQL writes might take 0.5 second, during which time 0.5/0.008 = 62 messages have backed up.

Many of our games (and im inferring Zynga's) store huge amounts of persistence / state data. Where has the player been, whats completed, timers, friends, etc, etc. Much more than you'd imagine - and thats not including the analytics data. These slower writes very quickly add up and reduce throughput.

Of course there are lots of things to optimise the number of messages, but this starts to give an idea for how quickly messages back up in a MMO type environment.

If you've bothered to read this far you might be interested in a short blog post I wrote about our casual MMO architecture http://dubitplatform.com/blog/2010/3/4/under-the-hood-dubit-...
i'm not sure i follow. are you suggesting that the wordpress development team discourages participation?
The difference being that freemium pricing is a loss leader that does not "discriminate" based on who the user is. Rather, it "discriminates" based on amount of the product being used, a perfectly acceptable and unbiased reason to charge a user more. Charging less to NPOs would be "discriminating" based on who the user is, which is not acceptable.

I'm not sure I agree with the OP, just trying to explain his position.
Aren't the things Google's listing here services, rather than products? Or am I using a narrow definition of a product?
That's a beautiful glider. But not human powered, it is car powered with strings attached. If you hear the wind sound, it seems they are using wind to lift too.

History is not made yet.
Good concept.

Is there a voting mechanism/do you plan to add one?

What about a recommendation engine?

Finally, have good fraud protection and you may even want to consider limiting the amount of submissions made by a user in a given time period or this will quickly become a place to spam affiliate links and the same product links over and over.
One company even tried to threaten us by saying that they will get in touch with the dean at Duke to alert them to the fact that we submitted work that is not ours(just imagine being a student who had used the paper for a class!).

Well, hopefully that student would have learned a valuable lesson about how far your consumer rights apply when you are engaged in an illicit activity.
Have you tried to put the iPad in your pocket yet? I think a 7" tablet fits better in a jacket at least.
What it accomplishes is this: The car drivers can no longer try to sneak around you when you are in the middle of the road. By taking up the whole lane, you are forcing them to acknowledge you.

Aside from all of this: your intuition is wrong. Please look at the statistics. The only disagreement in the statistics is over how much safer riding in the street is. There is no disagreement over street riding being safer.

I am certain this is a case of perception coupled with confirmation bias, much like those who would prefer to drive than to fly. Find a local cycling club to teach you tips on cycling safely around your metro.
It's actually not illegal in most places. None of the 50 states have a blanket law prohibiting riding on sidewalks, so it's purely a matter of local law. It's illegal in some cities, not in others, and almost never in anything smaller than a metropolis.

Some states do have laws about what constitutes legally riding a bike on a sidewalk. For example, Oregon requires bicyclists to yield to pedestrians, and to generally go slowly, slowing down to walking speed when crossing a crosswalk or driveway: https://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/814.410

Common practice seems to vary a lot by area. Riding a bike on the sidewalk in SF would be unsafe, unnecessary, and against city law, but in suburban and rural areas with high-speed-limit roads (~50-55 mph) without bike lanes or paved shoulders, but which do have sidewalks, it's quite unusual for people to ride in the road. In suburban Houston, for example, I would be really surprised to see a bike in the traffic lanes on something like Texas Hwy-3, but it's not that uncommon to see bikes on the sidewalk.
Honestly? I'll still buy from them.
What? a few bytes removed from the HTTP request and you double the speed..??? There is something I don't understand here.

I suspect the improvement comes exclusively from increasing the limit on the number of connections, by way of now using two sources instead of one, rather than from the removal of a few bytes in the HTTP request.

Unless I missed something...
Video footage from the new iPod Touch. Decent, but it’s not a Flip
Am I reading correctly that he is using his CPU to heat his room...?
You're right, it was easier than it would be for most people. But that has nothing to do with his salary (less than you'd think considering his title) or anything like that, or the ability to find a job (harder at the upper level and when you're older), but on his own decisions and being frugal.

1) My parents live in the same house they bought 34 years ago when he was a salesmen, so the 25 year mortgage was paid off years ago. Sure they've renovated since then but every time they thought about going bigger, my dad used to say "there is no way a house is worth this much, there aren't that many people who make this much money in this country". I used to think he was naive, but post housing bubble it makes a lot of sense.

2) The last time he had bought a car (new or used) was 1999. And it was a Ford SUV. He got laid off in 2008, it has 130k miles at the time. They recently replaced it, with a 2010 version of the same car they plan to have for another 10 years, but he has since founded a new company and has income and investors.

Spending money wisely matters a lot more than what you actually make. At my company now a pile of the factory guys drive cars made in the last 3 years (probably leased), while in my engineering group the "newest" of the cars owned by the 6 of us is a 2006 Mazda 3. We all make at least twice the guys in the factory. I'll be digging around under my car to replace an oxygen sensor this weekend, even though I could afford to be buying a new version my car I'd rather put the money in the bank.

Why? Because I want at least 12 months of living expenses in the bank before I start buying expensive stuff, "just in case!". Wonder where I learned that from? Anybody can do this stuff, you just have to live within your means. And that is basically putting a lot of your net pay in the bank for a rainy day.
Nope, I don't follow up the WordPress development at all so I can't judge

However, I can't believe none of the WordPress developers has never suggested to rewrite it using nowadays technologies?
Don't knock it until you've tried it.
thx, do you think it makes sense to add voting? we're not after a digg style model at all - hate how those sites are gamed so much by spammers.

not sure we need to limit submissions - you only follow who you want to hear from, if someone drives you mad - you can unfollow like twitter.

thanks so much for the feedback
This isn't always evident from the outside, and it may not even be evident from the inside, until you realize you should be advancing along that non-existent career path.
GOG shutdown a marketing ploy
> If one of the principal reasons for choosing your product is an opportunity to maximise profits, then an organisation that doesn't actually have that motivation arguably derives less value from it and logically ought to be less willing to pay market price.

An NPO doesn't work that much differently than FPO in this regard. NPO does not mean they can just waste money, if they have an opportunity to be more productive and save save money, they are going to take it. While their salary is not directly tied the amount of money brought in, NPOs have boards that hire,fire, and set wages for employees just like any other business, and they do this based on performance.
Any publicity != good publicity
Tabs are great, but why clutter your browser w all those flight searches?
You can ask Firefox to restore the tabs from the last session. So restarting becomes cheap. (You can also do this to Chrome and Opera, and probably other browsers.)
I'll quote a comment made on the article

"There is a minimum requirement for flight which
it met. That involves maintaining altitude and
speed over a certain period of time, whereas in
a glide you either lose speed to maintain altitude
until stall or lose altitude to maintain speed until ground.
The flyer maintained and even appeared to gain
altitude after the pull cord was released from the car
and maintained speed throughout the flight. If you are
wondering how I get this from the video, it's because
I am familiar with the researchers who did this."
And I have to say, I have no desire to purchase any more games from a company that acts in such a childish way.
I have a theory on why his site is not complete yet. :-)
That's a good point. I suppose I should have specifically labelled DB2 and SQL Server as competitors to Oracle 10x or whatever their current DBMS version is. :)
Yeah, I would. If you have a laptop just set the max CPU speed to 80% (or whatever, <100%) under power options to simulate the pain.

Maybe if you just type emails and surf all day it's not an issue, but if you are debugging big applications, it is most definitely an issue.
Alt-SysRq-B works more reliable in Linux.