skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, it's an application of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
Hooray  We got a new Craigslist
I really hope this classifieds site takes off. I posted an ad on there today and I have to say it is much better than Craigslist. I found it on PRWEB this morning. Check it out: http://bit.ly/dYQlnD
Really? Why would you bother with Canvas at all if you were doing anything (non-rotating) sprite-based?

Canvas' main advantage is that it can render vector graphics. Beyond that it's useful for doing image rotation in a cross-platform way and for manipulating bitmaps. If your game doesn't require those things, I can't think of a reason you'd want to use it in favor of something the browser is so natively good at as laying out image-based scenes.

These days, I'm much more inclined to use 3d-accererated CSS Transforms and Transitions first, then fall back on CSS positioning, then finally Canvas/SVG as a last resort for the few things that can't be accomplished by CSS/HTML.
I haven't looked closely at rejection therapy, but here is something I don't get about it.

Hasn't every man (Brad Pitt and George Clooney excluded) already done this?
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Ask HN:If you could access every file with a specific keyword, what would it be?
If you could have access to every document (email, word document, government cable, pdf, jpg, txt, etc.) in the world containing a specific keyword, what would that keyword be, and why?<p>I've had this discussion a few times with different circles of friends, and each group has come up with completely different suggestions. The only rule is that the keyword needs to be a reasonable suggestion, and not something intentionally-broad like "the", "a", "and" designed to just capture every possible document.
911 Google Adwords
911 says:
Google Adwords will be the biggest and the most valuable ad channel of the near future.
Oh - in that case, Charles Petzold's 'Code' is in my opinion a genuine masterpiece. It's a hard-to-place book in many ways. It explains what computers 'are' from the ground up, in a way that's accurate, fun to read if you're even passingly interested, and fairly complete.

A fascinating book for both those who know nothing about computers, and so well written it's still a great read for those who know them inside out. If not for yourself, it's possibly a great gift for a family member who wonders what exactly it is that you 'do'.

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780735611313/
Sadly, it's possible to patent an "idea" without ever having to produce a working prototype or demonstration.

Also, a link to the particular strip: http://xkcd.com/827/
Persuasion Triggers in Web Design
Charless Stross: Apple's next step
Is this a serious question? The creator of the language himself has admitted multiple times that it was never meant to be anything more than quick glue to add tiny dynamic content to a webpage, much like Perl was back in the day. He rarely adds anything to the language because he thinks PHP will be better for it, rather he described it as whatever features people yelled that they wanted more. As such it's turned into this mess of a language today that makes you want to cry whenever you have to work on it for anything beyond simple websites.

OOP was clearly just an afterthought and is very poorly implemented / missing many core functions of real OOP languages.

No threading support. In fact, the language itself isn't thread-safe to begin with.

Libraries are close to non-existent for anything outside of basic web features.

Function, method, constant, and argument naming conventions and ordering are completely inconsistent across the entire language. Because of this for everything related to say, strings, you're forced to always re-lookup the damn argument order because the language designers can never seem to decide whether needle or haystack should come first.

The language has always taken years to get features that other languages took for granted a decade ago (like closures and namespaces).

For years it had terrible defaults and practically encouraged insecure websites. Magic quotes anyone?

I could go on a several hour tirade of why PHP is bad, but I'll just stop here. If you're still using it, I'm sorry.
Many more video clips:

http://homepage.mac.com/j.socha/video/video.html
I guess you're either asking one of two questions, both which seem strange:

1) Do you receive magic fairy dust during college that makes you more productive and removes bugs from your code? No, I don't think so.

2) Will someone who knows the things taught in a typical 4-year undergraduate CS education be a better web developer? Obviously (?) yes; you can look at any of them and clearly see that they are good things to know. Will you point to some particular thing that you think is useless? Let me list some that seem reasonable for a lot of web development: non-trivial data structures, for understanding databases; experience with multiple languages; continuation-passing style; general system and network architecture (e.g. the OSI model) -- and so on.

If by "web developer" you mean writing http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/ then I guess no, you don't need to know much about anything for that.
Trendistic - see trends in Twitter
Decision matricies fall into the trap of treating qualitative data quantitatively. I would sincerely hope anywhere I am looking for a job is smart enough to know that this is fundamentally unsound.
Ann Arbor Computer Society-SQLite/Mobile Programming meeting
The Ann Arbor Computer Society is hosting a meeting on Wednesday evening in downtown Ann Arbor on SQLite (the serverless SQL engine). This will envelop not just SQLite but using databases in mobile programming.

Our presenter is Dan Hibbitts, who is an industry veteran. The meeting is entirely free (including pizza/soda/salad). For location, time and full details of the meeting please check out our website: http://www.computersociety.org
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I guess the New York Times is a terrorist group too since they did pretty much the same thing as WikiLeaks: someone handed them the cables and they happily published them.
Wikileaks has leaked all sorts of interesting documents like scandals related to the economic collapse of Iceland etc. It's just that this current affair is of such a magnitude that it overshadows all other leaks.

It's also a matter of global interest. If these where cables leaked by Belgians written in German they wouldn't have received the same attention because no one really cares about Belgium, and Belgium certainly has little to offer on the matter of global politics that could be of interest and have implications for all other western nations.
Beautiful Data (http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596157111/) sounds interesting.
Has representative King really considered the implication of such a classification?

"Terrorism" implies that a group exists to cause fear.

Wikileaks releases secret documents produced by the government of United States (et al).

If Wikileaks is a terrorist organization, then secret documents produced by the government of the United States must cause fear.

Is that really what King intends to say?
the path to monthly revenue isn't necessarily a linear one, no. but it doesn't mean that it still isn't a viable metric. take the exact same argument you made here, swap "revenue" and "pageviews", and it still pretty much makes sense.
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Not an actual disagreement, but remember to consider General von Manstein's thoughts on intelligence and energy too:

“There are only four types of officers.

First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm.

Second, there are the hard-working intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered.

Third, there are the hard-working, stupid ones. These people are a menace, and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody.

Finally, there are the intelligent lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office.”
I'd love to know what the fitness function is for these rockets' flights, but it doesn't seem to be discussed anywhere.
You can only be rejected if you ask for something. Many do not do this in the first place, out of fear of rejection. That's what rejection therapy addresses.
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If you think the United States "try to act ultimately for good and that there be minimal self-enrichment", then I am just going to have to frown.

American foreign policy has a very rich history of being very abusive to other countries when their agenda is at odds with ours. The irony of us going after Saddam Hussein recently was thick enough to cut with a knife, after all, we did in fact forcefully put him into power.

I welcome the release of the diplomatic wires personally, because right now all we get is a facade of fake transparency. We only know what they want us to know after all.
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Via: https://twitter.com/#!/stuccharlton/status/9185592818536448

Not sure about the US-only bit, though.
The interesting thing to me is that nothing will change. We have gotten a glimpse into how messed up some things are but there's no public outcry for change. People just aren't upset about the stupid things governments do. Nobody really cares. It's a bit disheartening.
Can you Name the Programming Language if You Know Their Creators? 
In this sporcle quiz, you'll be given the name(s) of the developer(s) who initiated the creation of a programming language. Can you guess which programming language they created?
No, because you can do a double lock on a pole (each side) so long as no one puts their lock through your frame (usually they could pass it through your lock if they wanted).

But for this if someone has suspended their bike below yours you could never lower your bike.
This is one of the worst lists I've yet seen, promoted by the purveyor of the website itself.

BASIC Computer Games?

The Word Processing Book?

Inside the IBM PC?

DOS For Dummies?

Are you serious? No, you're just fishing for pageviews.
How To Fine Tune Your Blog Writing Skills
Just wondering, do you honestly believe that or do you not believe that, but are just patriotic and want the CIA to look good?

Well it is a rhetorical question, I can guess how you'll answer it...
If you're interested in getting into the details of implementing a Lisp/Scheme interpreter and compiler, I highly recommend Lisp in Small Pieces: http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...
I think an effective system would be using html5/flash that grabs an image and requires a user to do some movement with their mouse. i.e. select a house with a broken window, followed by a house with red windows and followed by a house with smoke coming out of it.

since it's flash/html5, I figure its going to be a lot harder to automate a way to break it.
Odd. The TSA has had more of a detrimental affect on my (physically and emotionally) than Wikileaks ever could.
There is no magic single variable for this, you have to use a mixture of different variables and projections to get it right.

The ones you need to track wind up being a mix of the following:

1. Page views: Track overall growth

2. Page views per user: Track engagement

3. Visits: Track overall growth.

4. Unique visitors: largely useless metric since every tool out there disagrees with each other on the number.

5. Revenue per user: Track user segmentation.

6. Revenue per page view: Track infrastructure costs.

7. Active users: Finer measure of engagement and churn.

8. User acquisition/retention cost: Track cost of marketing/outreach.

(1) is important if you are selling inventory on CPM.

(2) is needed to get the mix of organic growth with existing users to increase, while keeping a different focus on acquiring new users.

(3) mostly needed for the ad sales pitch. No point getting a million visitors if you can't retain them, but sales needs inventory.

(4) has always been ~10% off between different tools. Can be an indicative measure of engagement.

(5) helps you keep ceilings in place for acceptable cost per user

(6) can help you make decisions on infrastructure where you need more than what you can buy.

(7) possibly the only user-related metric that should matter internally.

(8) can help you understand why bidding on that $5 CPC keyword does not make sense when what you make per user is $3.
Do you have a web app?
I threatened to do this in an introductory undergrad systems programming course I had to take to satisfy a degree requirement in spite of it being way below my level of proficiency. Fortunately for my grade and the grader's sanity, I chose not to do it.
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Cycling in the same roads as Miami drivers must feel like a gamble for your life. (I cycle every day here in SF, and I used to live in Fort Lauderdale, I speak from partial experience).
[a rel="negative"]the competition[/a]

rel=nofollow works because websites want discourage SEO spam, not because they want to spend their R&D resources on helping Google
Cult phenomenon?

When I was a teenager me and my friends called it "rolling in the mud"

Often a lot of us kids were very nervous going to clubs and quite scared to talk to girls. So then the more experienced kids, you know those in their late teens, would give the following advice.

Just get out there and hit on everything that moves, accept rejection just roll in the mud for a few hours, that will get rid of the shakes. And it works. Over time you stop being so nervous and have less need to start the night by rolling the mud.

Now the pick up master movement has re-branded this to something which sounds much more glamorous: "Nexting"
They're not rejecting you, you're "nexting" them! This is a brilliant sales strategy if you're in the market of selling advice and therapy to shy and nervous guys.
I'm considering The Book of PF, Second Edition.
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I always thought of the stock market as a form of gambling, and this quote hints at that:

"a list of advantages of active management, which essentially boiled down to the fact that it’s more fun"

also:

"There is an innate cultural imperative in this country to beat the odds"

and the stock market is viewed as better than casinos for this kind of gambling.
Use a prepaid credit card; use a payphone for the phone call confirmation.
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Please link your company & other projects in your profile so I and other tech women know we're not welcome in your efforts. Seriously. I'm done fighting sexists, I just want to know where you are so I can avoid you.
We are "western" only by our location these days. Once cable TV gets shut down we may actually see a revolution.
The guy whose thesis this was comments on it here: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/ebql6/double_inverted_...

I had guessed they were using visual sensing because of how the two halves of the pendulum were painted in contrasting, bright colors, but I was wrong. There are angular sensors at the joints of the pendulum, and a position sensor in the wagon at the bottom. The control system also needs the velocities of the parts of the pendulum, which it gets through a state observer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_observer).

The interesting part for me was how the control system stands the pendulum up: it figures out the potential energy the pendulum will have when upright, then jerks the wagon around to add that amount of energy into the system as kinetic energy, then guides the system around a constant-energy landscape until it's upright. Pretty clever!
The thing is with that lock you have a stack, so the first bike on that pole can't get down until the others are gone. With regular locks problems happen only by mistake or by being an ass.
OpenWRT http://openwrt.org/ also has a number of clients (and even a tracker) ready to be installed in the repository:

# opkg list | grep -i torrent
btpd - 0.15-1 - BTPD is a bittorrent client consisting of a daemon and client commands,
The daemon is capable of running several torrents simultaneously and only uses one tcp port.
cbtt - 20060727-1 - Bittorrent tracker
cbtt-mysql - 20060727-1 - Bittorrent tracker (with mysql support)
ctorrent - dnh3.3.2-5 - CTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in the C programming language,
ctorrent-nossl - dnh3.3.2-5 - CTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in the C programming language,
libtorrent - 0.12.6_r1130-3 - LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus
rtorrent - 0.8.6_r1130-1 - rTorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library.
transmission-daemon - 1.92-1 - Transmission is a simple BitTorrent client.
"they weren't getting paid"

There's often a direct correlation between getting paid and someone doing the work.

In my experience, someone who wants work to be done on speculation is not a client.
They are sitting ducks, one well armed rogue pirate ship could finish them.

Why would an armed rogue ship want to do that? Seastead platforms would only have value as a floating platform. It's not as if you could easily fence the thing.

The platforms could also be hosting things of value, like a casino. A casino would probably be able to afford really good security, and its owners might well have enough political pull to get the assistance of land-nation's militaries. It would have to be a really organized and well equipped rogue pirate ship. I'm not sure these exist. The closest analogues are small open boats of armed Somalis and actual military ships.

Most likely, the platforms would be of little value to a pirate. The few that are going to be worth hitting will probably be too hard to hit.
I think this has to do with the age distribution in Western countries. As the baby boomers retire, they no longer are adding but start removing funds from the system.

A friend and I talked about this 20 years ago when 401(k)'s became the rage, lamenting that we were on the wrong side of the boom.
This reminds me of when cities create centers for safe drug use.

You can't prevent people from doing what they want to do, but you can create an environment to reduce the negative impact, and possibly have some benefits too (reduced diseases and in this case a successful startup).
(Note: The log(n) stuff was a mildly humorous reaction to the 'pie in the sky' nature of some of the log(n) levels in the article, though the concept of solving the identity problem without getting people to create usernames and passwords blew my mind recently)

I do however stand 100% behind the eternal vigilance comment.

I wasn't expecting an example so quickly, but this serves as a case in point:

http://cvk.posterous.com/sql-injection-with-raw-md5-hashes
I don't quite understand what you're saying.

From what I understand when the ETF achieves cash position needed to generate 1 creation unit (usually 50k ETF shares, as you correctly point out), then the fund is absolutely required to purchase underlying shares that index it's tracking requires it to hold. It can't just hold cash and promise to track index nevertheless. Or do you mean that first comes the Creation Unit, and then people can buy shares in ETF?

In case of ETN there's absolutely no obligation to purchase anything, as they're simply debt of issuer; a promise to repay you in the future according to predetermined index or underlying movement.

Maybe you meant ETNs?

P.S. I re-read what you wrote, and I think what you're saying is that large institutions are intermediaries between ETF and investor. That is absolutely correct, and probably is so 99% of the time in the market anyway regardless of whether shares purchased are of individual companies or funds. But ETF is still required to hold the assets it states it will hold, that was my point.
Actually mildly annoyed, since I got in on the pragprog 40% off deal for black friday, and now many of their titles are available here for 60% off today.
I forgot to mention that I will be including where; it's one of my favourite things about Haskell! (* 2 (x (where (= x 1))) will be rewritten to 2 * (let x = 1 in x).
Thinking Outside of the Box
When you are trying to stand out among thousands of applicants for a great job, you have to think beyond proper formatting for your résumé and spell check for your cover letter.
If you want to have any hopes of standing out, you have to think outside the box.
> Has representative King really considered the implication of such a classification?

Absolutely; they represent a threat to his power, and so he'll use whatever tools he has at his disposal to disadvantage them in that fight. If they're a terrorist organization, it becomes illegal to give them monetary support, which they obviously need.

It's much simpler than the definition of the word 'terrorist'.
Actually population growth all over the wold is slowing down. China is already at almost neutral and growth is even slowing in India and Africa.

And a static or shrinking population would have an adverse affect on total market cap, however it would also mean a great job market, because even as the economy shrinks the labor pool would shrink faster.

So your investments would not do well, but you'd always be able to get a high paying job.
I disagree. "Terrorism" implies that a group is full of bad evil meanies who want to hurt America. I believe that is exactly what the honorable Rep. King wants to say about Wikileaks.
Pretty cool (and now bookmarked) - kinda like The Courage Wolf but in a more serious light.

Looks great on my iPhone! Also, I'm not sure if you've got an Apple developer license, but if you do you could submit this to the Apple Web Apps list for more exposure - go to http://www.apple.com/webapps/ and there's a link on the right that says "Submitting Applications"
"And it has become a cult phenomenon as the idea spreads through Facebook, Twitter, the Hacker News blog and other social media."

HN is a blog? Who knew?
A crucial difference is that a 2-link pendulum is a chaotic system. It's much harder from a control-theory point of view.
I don't think Assange will be arrested or wikileaks shut down because they're afraid of how much damaging material could be in a 1.4G encrypted torrent.
I'm surprised that in discussions I've seen that nobody has mentioned Google TV. As a next gen TV framework SNAP would compete directly with it. It could even be seen as a less resource intensive & closer to the metal response to the Google TV strategy.

I think it's far more likely that it was shelved due to internal politics or pressure from Google than any other theory.
To take this to the next level of abstraction, the game could be developed into two parts. The first part would help you identify what your worst fears are, and the second part would have you go through the corresponding therapies.
I don't think increasing their revenue per search is going to be small potatoes but I agree that getting that email and connecting it with purchase data is going to be hugely valuable.

What we're both talking about are just two sides of the same coin. The goal is maximizing the total lifetime value of the customer. One approach is by increasing the revenue per transaction and the second is increasing the number of transactions per customer. (Third would be increasing referrals per customer but that probably won't factor in as much, I suspect.)
Doesn't apply, since the money was in escrow.
Classic quote:

You've been reading my OOP sucks blogs. I saw a blog yesterday, they said Erlang is actually more object oriented, truer to the spirit of pure object orientation than all object oriented languages. You could take two views: you could say either Erlang isn't object oriented - which I used to say a few years ago - or you could say it's more object oriented than all the object oriented languages.