skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that blockage is done periodically (once a year?), so that the parking lot does not become a road by fiat.

This from a common law doctrine that makes private roads public rights of way. It must be blocked off one day per year to prevent it becoming a public right of way. Once it's a public right of way it's really hard to make it private again, it must be unused for 7 years or something.
Qt is LGPL. It's certainly possible to write and maintain an Android/iOS/WebOS port of Qt without Nokia's help or approval -- and if you spend a while thinking about it with a lawyer, it might be possible to write a proprietary one you can sell to people who have already written an app for Meego.

(edit) I just want to add that write once, run anywhere hasn't ever worked right, but that hasn't ever stopped it from being an efficient way to market your platform to developers either.
Joel disagrees: rewriting stuff from scratch is often a very bad idea
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
I learned Hamming code in school this summer (digital systems) .It was probably the single most magical thing (even more than flipflops! Loops make memory!) I was exposed to that class.

I remember upon learning it someone went "wow, who came up with that". The prof answered dryly "some genius named Hamming".
I'd go with Tarjan and Hopcroft's planarity testing algorithm, whose runtime is linear in the number of vertices.
NewsBlur: A feed reader with intelligence
More of a complexity result than an algorithm, but it is a really fun result anyway. In complexity class we were given the problem to simulate an n-tape non-deterministic Turing machine with a 2-tape non-deterministic Turing machine with just a constant slow-down (which turned out to be 3). It really gave an insight into the power of non-deterministic choice.
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Great idea! I agree with retroafroman - home page should have some examples - and I'd do an example photo next to, or composited on top of, the "end result" of the photo used in a website. This way people who don't understand the world of stock photography will visually see why people might want their snaps.
Hey folks, I'm a HNer. I created NewsBlur with Hacker News in mind the entire time. In fact, I thought up the idea during a summer NYC Hackers and Founders last year. For the past 16 months, I kept trying to pick a date when NewsBlur would be ready to submit. Finally, embarrassed as I am by the bugs galore, today is that day and I am glad to say that NewsBlur is far enough along to show off.

NewsBlur is an RSS feed reader that tries to do two things very well:

1) Shows you the original site instead of a context-less feed. Read the original and NewsBlur marks the stories you've read.

2) Filter stories you either like or dislike. A three-stop slider goes between dislike, neutral, and like (red, yellow, and green). Training is super-easy and all click-based (as opposed to you having to writing out what you like in a site, NewsBlur asks you, semi-Hunch-style, your opinions on facets of the site).

I started working on NewsBlur to see if I could do it. Put the AI together with the back-end feed processing and fetching, along with the nifty front-end of the original site. This is one of those projects where I just kept pushing in all directions until I felt I had something good, not knowing if I could do it at all, but believing the entire time that I was able to complete the project.

If you have a project kicking around in the back of your mind, just dedicate enough weeks and months to get it done and done well. Provided you do that, you're almost guaranteed to succeed in some way. Those first few months of writing NewsBlur, I felt like a fraud, wishing I could just get threaded feed fetching to not break every few minutes. Even what I considered to be simple python gave me headaches. (Turns out threading is evil, use multiprocessing instead.)

NewsBlur is entirely open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/. The iPhone app, the front-end JavaScript, and the back-end Python. Pick it apart, but know that it is more a learning experience than a business. Turning it into something profitable may not be easy, but I only need 80 premium users to make that happen.
Keep in mind that it takes just one or two person to downvote you while there might be 400 or more readers who had nothing to complain about your comment. So it may not be as bad as it looks. Especially if the downvotes are because you just used three ??? Or !!11! Instead of one.

If it's frequent then there might be indeed a problem. Think about and try to understand what PG observed about your comments.

I also often get downvoted. Think of it as just a tool helping to sort comments, not to judge you. I benefit from it too to read the "best" comments first. But when i'm really interrested in the topic i read all comments, even if they are downvoted. I also sometime upvote downvoted comment when I think it was abusive because I know how it feels.
Check out the source of SQLite.
Definitely. The hardest thing to sell, when it comes to regular HTTP digest auth, is the user interface. People (clients) truly prefer pretty and insecure over ugly and secure.
(1) Luckily the Linux Driver Project agrees with you, and will make the drivers for manufacturers if they ask: http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/foswiki/bin/view/Main/WebH...
If you can only afford one machine, what makes you think you can afford a laptop with the specs to handle something like high end photo editing? For the same money you could buy a low end laptop for portability, and a decent mid-end PC for more intensive applications. This objection doesn't make much sense. Laptops have never been intended for high end intensive applications.
Not totally -- you're looking at the right things. As people have been saying there are kind of two parts to it. The first part has a lot more to do with the page content than the technical specifics.
OpenOffice was acquired by Oracle recently when they bought Sun Microsystesm and have not embraced the open source philosophy in the opinion of the greater open office community. So, since the code is open source, several in the non-Oracle community decided to "rescue" the project from the same fate as Opensolaris. Libre Office is based on OO code 3.3 and GO-OO.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20014478-264.html
I had a similar idea a little while ago, but centered around news and event photos. Send in your geo-tagged photos a political demonstration, an accident, a crime or a celebrity fling... Journalists could then search for hot spots around the world with a lot of activity right now... maybe something to think about. Good luck!
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There are types of users you want to attract: buyers and sellers/submitters. It seems like the home page is geared towards the sellers, which makes sense because you need to get a bunch of photos for it to be useful to buyers.

The one thing I would note is that it's not quite obvious what the photos will be used for, which may make it hard to determine what type of pictures you want. I was able to infer that it's for stock photography, but I'm pretty sure I only know what that is because I do web development.

One more tip that's a little off-topic: If this takes off (and hopefully it will) you'll be getting a deluge of photos that will need categorization and moderation. You should check out http://houdinihq.com/ which offers an easy API for using Mechanical Turk. You can email me at mike@ablegray.com and I'll hook you up with the guy who runs it.
Not so sure about that. I recently put Ubuntu on a low end Acer laptop - the kind that's been around for years - and still had problems with a lot of things.
The problem with sending a message to people telling them they're infected isn't that it's unethical, it's that they'll just think it's some trojan trying to get access and close the window.
People need a modern reminder like Wikileaks

Is there really a lack of suspicion of intelligence agaencies going about? Roughly one out of every three movies currently being made is something about the US Government being secretly involved in dodgy clandestine activities. How many movies have the "twist" that the real bad guys turn out to be some corrupt US Government official?

Want to make a short list? Count up the number of movies where the CIA is portrayed in a positive light. Even the latest James Bond, a series which has been refreshingly positive in its depiction of the Western intelligence agencies, had the CIA as the bad guys.

Ask people what they think of the CIA and you'll find that they have an image much more Jason Bourne than real life.
For mac users: control-option-command-8.

Now, if there was a way to only invert luminosity without trashing aliasing.
What would it take to get the enterprise to look at alternatives to Java (programming language and/or platform)? If COBOL is any indication, then Java software in the enterprise will continue to be developed for the remainder of our lives.

So, unless you find working with the COBOL of our times enthralling, I guess now is as good a time as any to jump ship on Java. Not that most HN readers haven't done that already.
in theory yes, but in practice no. developing such a complex piece of software is very hard to do. the pieces are there, they just need refine it.
> In my experience, people who have an attitude of doubt or want a guarantee of quick returns immediately disqualify themselves from achieving something earth shattering.

No one said anything about quick returns or a guarantee, but I'll bite - what is your experience? (I happen to personally know folks who have done earth shattering things and they have doubts. Not doing dumb things is a big advantage.)

> What do I bring to the table? Something that hasn't been done before coupled with an understanding that I don't have all the answers, other people who are experts in their particular areas have value to contribute, and I don't care what has to happen to make my vision real as long as my vision doesn't get corrupted or sold short.

That's a mix of meaningless platitudes and danger signs. Do you know which is which? In your experience, why is saying that a good idea?

> What is my supposed "vision"? It's not something I toss around in forums.

That's nice, but I didn't ask you to. I'm willing to assume that you've got a great vision. I'm asking what else you've got because great vision isn't enough.

> I have bills to pay.

We all do.
People had multi gigabyte music and movie and TV show collections long before iTunes made it 'popular' or 'easy'. And I wager that most multi gigabyte movie and TV show collections still have nothing to do with iTunes.

Though yes, Apple did do a huge part for boosting people's music collections. But let's not even pretend for movies and TV shows. That "honour" goes to some completely different groups... cough.
Sure, check out:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Dot+Notation+%28Reaching...
Unfortunately a lot of the niceness of Gnome, like the wireless config stuff, battery notifications, auto-mounting of USB Drives, and status icons you'd typically expect are dependent on using the Gnome/Nautilus interface. (At least I think that's the case.)

You can use a lot of GNOME without being on a 'GNOME desktop.' gnome-power-manager can run on it's own (and most of the information that the battery display applets use resides in /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0 (or BAT[1-9] I guess, if you have multiple batteries...). gnome-screensaver doesn't need to be run from within GNOME. IIRC the auto-mounting is shared between gnome-vfs (aka /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/gnome-vfs-daemon on 10.04) and udev rules. The udev rules handle things like usb-mass-storage devices, and gnome-vfs handles things that get mounted to ~/.gvfs/ (like digital cameras). (FYI, udev rules are at the system-level and not dependent on desktop)

Wireless is managed by the network-manager daemon which is launched on Linux boot (in Ubuntu). The controlling applet is nm-applet, which just accesses the backend-daemon. I remember there being a console app to interface with network-manager, but it wasn't that polished last time I looked at it. There is nothing stopping anyone from interfacing with network-manager in a standalone app. You could also swap network-manager with wicd (http://wicd.sf.net).
I'd trust Julian Assange a lot more if I thought that his goal were actually some sort of obsessive-compulsive desire for openness of information, rather than fighting against US interests.
Forking the code is absolutely fine. Wanting the name too to pretend that the shareholders who underwrote all this development aren't part of it is just plain rude.
Indeed. Which is why the lion's share was done by corporations Star Division and then Sun, not by "the community".
That's a lot of good points. But why not just auto-hide the topbar? Full functionality + Full space saving.
OO will serve as a test bed for Oracle Office but it will not be innovative and free, OO will just be free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Office
Format the MacBook Pro and it will be just as fast...

Do you have any support for that claim?
Iceland turns from banks to freedom of speech.
"As long as you can email them to us" - is this the only mechanism for sending the photos? I realise you might have written this to simplify the page, but my first reaction was that I'd rather be able to upload them. Then on the 'Photo Guide' I do read that I can upload them. Perhaps instead of that sentence on the home page it would be better to link to the Photo Guide.

Looks like a pretty good idea though :) Good luck with it!
Then you're not going to get fullsized on anything smaller than a 17". And not even the 17" MBP. Though there was this great deal going on a while back. Back when you got the free iPod Touch with the MBP, you could just get the numpad app for the iPod and use the most expensive external numpad ever!
I'll second this. I haven't looked through it myself, but have heard it praised many times as an example of exceptionally clean and efficient code.
the deal is the steering committee is now made up of all Oracle employees, no one from the community, a BIG deal for FOSS
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Saying "This move could anger at least some open source enthusiasts" seems to imply that they're moving to a closed source or proprietary system, but Unity seems to be an open source project at a cursory glance. It could anger some Gnome enthusiasts, who are presumably open source enthusiasts as well, but not because of anything to do with the open source-ness of the project. Right? Or is Unity not quite as open as claimed?
> A man in that time, speaking out like that? Wow.

Why are you surprised at such stuff from the 30s? (There's similar stuff from the 1910s, the 1890s, 1860s and even that wasn't novel.)
The core ideas behind SVD and eigen values are very rich and profound. It has always fascinated me when I studying maths in undergrad.

Someone else already mentioned compressed sensing, which expands on some of those ideas. Terrence Tao had a pretty good presentation on the topic: http://terrytao.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/compressed-sensi...
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Thanks - looks useful! I'm hoping to get users to do their own tagging after the photo has been approved, but I'll still need to approve tags which would likely become a bit of a bitch after a while - a way of automating will definitely be useful!
Doesn't work on the 3 jail-broken 3G/GS iPhone I tried (3.2 firmware).
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The key word is "often".
OpenOffice needs it's own "Firefox moment".
16-core? Since when is there more than a 12-core Mac Pro?
How many times did I want to watch a directory waiting for a file to appear in it?

For this sort of thing I use a simple perl script called atchange. I could do:

atchange . ls

And I'd see list output whenever a new file appeared in the directory. The hacky thing I usually use it for:

atchange my_source_file make

to make things rebuild when I save my_source_file in my editor.

The script is here: http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/ftp/atchange
The webpage about it is here: http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/atchange.html

I first learnt about it years ago while reading the entertaining ``Work'' Columns by Jeffreys Copeland & Haemer: http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~copeland/work/
That's actually exactly how I use my current, 13" MBP [1]. I spend about half my week on a 21" monitor with keyboard and mouse with the MB in clamshell mode, and the other half in coffee shops. I have no problems developing in either environment. (I'm a vi and command line guy, which might help.)

[1] Since it's a first-gen metallic unibody, it's technically a Macbook, but they now call this machine a Macbook Pro.
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Apple would absolutely have to gut Sony to make it work, and would lose a huge amount of value just to merging or cutting areas. Apple could not leave any of the Sony leadership intact in any area Apple had an existing business.

I would actually believe an AMD acquisition before this.
I think the conclusion that Digg is behind this is tenuous. The evidence presented is:

1. When told about these accounts the activity on these accounts stopped.

2. The OP claims: "On a technical side: Digg can only ban accounts but cannot stop accounts from digging. So, if this was from some exterior group, digg would have only banned them as they cannot stop them from digging."

1 can easily be explained by recognizing that Digg may have decided to temporarily put a hold of the accounts once informed of the odd voting patterns.

2 is bogus. It's their site and they can do whatever they want. It should be easy to keep accounts live but stop their diggs from counting, for example.

It strikes me (see my other comment in this thread) that the accounts could have been created by people outside Digg manually (they are only roughly 100 accounts and they weren't created quickly) and then used for this purpose.

None of that implicates Digg.
Steve Jobs ‘raged at Microsoft’ over Bungie studio sale
There are other things which sound too good to be true and yet are true (the sampling theorem for exact reconstruction of periodic signals is pretty unintuitive IMO, and even more "magic")
At the moment... we have pretty much nothing, but I'm going to submit a bunch of my photos and get some friends and family to do the same to get a small user base going before it goes properly live. At the moment, I just want to gather a few email addresses to see if people are interested in the idea at all.
Aibek Esengulov of MakeUseOf.com Shares His Startup Story
Well... that was refreshingly accurate, warts and all. =)

Thank you for writing this. I really enjoyed reading it.
Yeah I agree, there really should be some guidelines concerning the messages government people leave behind on hacked computers. How are users supposed to know if the message is real or authtentic? Its not like they send you a PGP key to go with it..
This looks great and releasing the source is certainly very generous of you. Definitely inspiring.

edit: I'm totally cloning this repo in case you change your mind :P
Hey, great post. I'm in a similar situation, and I'm not as intimidated/frustrated as I once was...for now.
it is not a fair review of the performance diff between a pro and an air

for somebody who runs a traditional dev stack (eclipse/netbeans + 2+ browsers + compiler/vm + httpd + photoshop + database +++), or a gamer, or a student, a 10 or even 5% performance delta makes a big diff.
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Well, it looks like some students will be getting a surprise test tomorrow.
A number of Qt hackers out there already have it running on iOS and Android. Nokia doesn't control where people use the open-source code (and the commercial code either, I guess).
Google Reader import ftw. I would have just looked and kept moving if I hadn't spotted that on the right.

Well played sir, well played.
> On the other hand, I keep hoping the Higgs Boson (or a discovery soon after it) will hold the key to either anti-gravity or wormholes.

Unfortunately, the Higgs has next to nothing to do with either of these. The fact of the matter is that it is very improbable that anything discovered at frontier accelerator (e.g., the LHC, SSC, CLIC) will produce anything useful for many hundreds of years, if not longer. Rather, these accelerators are built to learn about the universe for its own sake.
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I'm also not an expert on Somalia - thanks for pointing out that paper.

> All anarchists recognize that there needs to be significant social change before anarchism could happen

I would go further and point out that there needs to be significant physiological change before some kind of idealized anarchism could happen. Humans - no, primates - organize themselves into groups and leaders emerge. A multitude of small groups tends to lead to resource conflicts and enforced conformance within the groups.

The irony of anarchism is that in almost all dimensions you are more free under a centralized government. Belong to a minority religion or sexuality? Have fun with that one in a society lacking strong laws protecting all individuals. Don't like where you're living? Have fun moving across the country. Got poisoned by a negligent food manufacturer? Too damn bad.

There is always a tension between individuality and collectivity in governments. Like communism is the insane end of the scale for the latter, anarchism is the for former.
I think this is very subjective to where in the world you are. In the UK, especially in larger businesses, PHP is rare and C# / ASP.NET / .NET are fairly very common. Rates for PHP are also generally lower.

As an example Jobserve.com, one of the major search engines for jobs here, has 501 PHP jobs, 1,100 ASP.NET jobs, 2,736 .NET jobs and 1,954 C# jobs (search against UK, Europe and Middle East but most of those will be UK).
A day's-worth of elphant-curve traffic is done not when there are no more visitors to arrive, but when there are no more visitors to leave.
There are actually implementations of deque which can store elements contiguously: imagine a vector where the "first element" is placed in the middle of the vector, and push_{front,back} reallocate whenever either end is reached. It wastes more memory than the typical deque implementation, but the elements are contiguous.
Qt is slighly different because the whole "write once run anywhere" isn't done at the runtime level, it's just at the API level. You still need to cross-compile the Qt libraries for the target system and rebuild your app for the new target.

But Trolltech (whoops, I mean Nokia) have a great set of tools to make regenerating a project for a different platform very easy. I've been able to take a typical project and build it for Mac, PC, and Linux in a matter of minutes with no editing. It's not always pretty (like the Mac libraries don't use the UI elements nicely), but it works well.
IIRC, it's long been possible to patch GNOME/Gtk to do this (and such patches exist).
I think the biggest problem with the current version of Unity is the lack of customization.

10.10 Unity does not allow the removal or movement of any of the desktop elements - you cannot hide the topbar or the sidebar, both of which take up significant space on netbooks. Less of an issue for desktop computing, but still.

The bars are also not customizable, which to me was a big draw of Ubuntu and the GNOME shell itself. Let's hope that they return that functionality - otherwise, I'll be using 10.04.1 for quite a while.
Not just the hardware itself, but I prefer the OSX desktop environment. I used a Linux desktop to get work done for four years. Turns out, OSX is what I wanted all along. I develop by sshing into Linux boxes, so what's on my desk doesn't have to be Linux.
Agreed. To say otherwise is to be drinking the Koolaid that Apple fed to record labels 10 years ago. "We'll boost your sales like you've never seen. We'll even protect your stuff with DRM, no one will mind!"