skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, that’s not my experience in Germany. All retailers which sell only Apple products are also Authorized Apple Service Providers and there is one in every mid-sized city. They won’t do repairs on the spot, though.
Instead of using hardware acceleration like browser-native video decoders can, this involves compiling C to ActionScript and running it on Flash’s VM.

So don’t expect his frame rate of 1.5Hz (!) to improve much.

This is not a real alternative, even if you just consider how much of your users’ batteries this “technique” would burn away.
I think that's an excellent question and I'm interested to hear what other people think.

I'm the kind of person who picks up languages for fun, so I learn a new language pretty fast. So, I'm usually willing to say I have "experience" in a language I've dabbled in (and done a couple projects solely for the purpose of learning the language); if I need the language for the job, I know I'll be able to handle it just fine thanks to Google.

A CV with a million niche languages on it looks ridiculous, however, so I try to tailor the list to what I think would look good to whoever's reading it: enough languages that it looks impressive, but not so many that they question whether it's possible or not.

I would only recommend doing this if you have sufficient programming experience and a firm enough grasp of fundamentals to be able to pick up new things quickly, however. Also, this assumes that you know enough about the language that you can discuss it intelligently.
He comes across as very whiny. The tactics he mentions seem pretty valid to me (and if he's mad, they must be working to some degree).

He should be happy Twitter haven't decided to roll those features into the platform (yet) and put him out of business altogether.
W3Fools - A W3Schools Intervention
We are passionate about the web, learning, and craftsmanship. We want you, as web designers and developers, to be successful in your careers. We feel, though, that W3Schools is harming the community with inaccurate information. Like any other authoritative educational resource, W3Schools should both hold itself to, and be held to, the highest standards.

We hope we can illuminate why W3Schools is a troublesome resource, why their faulty information is a detriment to the web, and what you (and they) can do about it.

~ members of the Front-end Dev Community, January 14th, 2011
But at that point, you could use Scala or Java if you want a nice static/strong language.

Then you get access to nicer frameworks like Lift, Play, et al with the associated free and open source infrastructure.
Good point. I'd probably stick to doing both as well for now.
. . . because the other side deserves to be heard.
Well I work on a 14" dell machine that is light enough (~2kg) to carry around. With SSD and 4GB RAM it is also sufficiently fast.

As for unplugging stuff, there is USB, Audio, Network, DisplayPort, Power.. 5 cables to pull out, it's really a matter of seconds, but if you care about that you can get a dock and then you just have to grab the laptop and go. Rearranging windows isn't an issue if you run most things fullscreen.
I'm a student at OUHSC, and her husband, Dr. Janknecht, is one of my professors. Although failing to make a backup is obviously stupid, he is an extremely competent researcher (I don't know her). Clearly, calling the data "a cure" is a bit of hype, but that exaggeration might help in convincing the thief to bring the laptop back.

About computer knowledge in biological research, though -- the state of things is generally abysmal. The average biology Ph.D. can use Excel to find means, SDs, and do t-tests, and that's about it. Even my boss, who specializes in bioinformatics, still uses VB6+MSAccess shudder. Most probably don't know that hard drives CAN fail.

Yet, researchers are fiercely independent and would definitely resist any heavy-handed mandates from campus IT forcing specific OSes or regular backups.
The default setup for any TeX Ive used will convert a space after a period to 1.5 spaces, which is what I prefer. You can of course change this.
Ask HN: Review my startup idea, Ditto
Here is an idea that I have for a location based reminder app that, in concept, can be utilized both privately and publicly. Any feedback is welcome, and if you would like to join me in developing it, even more so! Email me using the mailto at the bottom of the page.

http://youditto.com
What a useless pedantic article, how did this get to the top of the HN front page?

I often type two spaces because it was drilled into me when I learned touch typing at 14 years of age. Very hard to unlearn that. Unusually I also had a Dad who was a layout designer, so I knew a lot about typography including that you only use a single space when laying type. Still f'ing hard to overcome the double space which is done completely reflexively by fast touch typists.
I'm not sure how telling a 3 year old game hitting the Mac App Store at near-launch prices will be.
On the other hand, you may just want to patent something to prevent exactly that from happening. Holding a patent does not require you to make money off of it, but it does prevent others from doing so. It's a bit sad that one has to go this far, but there you have it.

You want to ensure the technique remains available to anyone freely: patent it and publish it along with permissive licenses.
It was a Mac, which most likely came with Time Machine - all she had to do was connect a USB drive (as far as I remember, OS X even asks if you want to use the drive for backups) and she would have had automatic versioned backups.

To be honest, I think most people need backing data up scared into them (e.g., I nearly lost a college project due a HD failure, and now I have multiple redundant backups).
If she ends up losing the data permanently, that will severely hamper her ability to apply for future grants (which usually require preliminary data), and lose funding. This offense is definitely self-punishing.
Not just that -- doesn't he give the strong impression he manually changes each instance of a double space he runs into?
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I'm sick of this attitude of "Always be super nice and make sure you over mother your users" crap. You know what: If my car engine seizes because I haven't changed the oil, no one tells the car makers or the mechanics they didn't do thier job right. If I leave the oven on all night and get CO poisoning, no one blames the oven maker for it. If someone doesn't buy renter's insurance we don't blame the apartment owner for them losing their net-worth.

PCs have been almost ubiquitous for 20 years now. For my entire freaking life I have been hearing about how "you need to back up your data". We have consistently made better and better backup tools, like mozy, or backblaze. Yet somehow it is our fault some idiot decided "It won't happen to me!". At some point, we just have to have the users be a tiny little baby step of a bit responsible for their stuff too. Just like accounting makes people responsible for their inventory and expense reports. Just like HR makes people responsible for their own insurance stuff. Sure they help, but crap - people need to be a little grown up in their lives and actions.

Just because this person did not bother to find out about backups from her IT does not make it ITs problem. Hell, you don't even know if there was or wasn't the ability for backups in place. Most university IT shops have lots and lots of capacity and backup options in place -- and they are documented, they just don't force users to do it. You know why? Sanctimonious asshats come from the other direction then, complaining not about how IT must mother the employees, but instead must back off the draconian rules to make users feel more welcome.

tl; dr -- Users should be held to some standard of responsibility and IT is damned when they do and when they don't.
Not specifically chinese: VGTSX/VTIAX

Plus, rather than speculating on a currency, you're actually purchasing a piece of a foreign company's productivity.
actually, the free for non commercial only applies up to 2015 I think it is? after that, your already encoded video could cost you.
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2103428
I think it makes sense that it's taken a long time for Apple to implement Personal Hotspot; it's a feature that runs in the background that can suck up a lot of battery and add a lot of charges to your plan. I'm sure they had to think a lot about how to best put this into the interface, making it obvious that it's running, easy to turn on/off, etc.

That said, it's my favorite feature of my Nexus One...
While it's difficult to ever really know what's going on in someone else's head, I actually do believe that the Winklevosses are pursuing this out of a sense of outrage and justice, not money. It's the motivation that makes the most sense to me.

That said (and again within my very limited knowledge of all this), I think that a $60+ million settlement is an incredibly good outcome for the winklevosses. I think that if they had found a different programmer, they would have produced yet another social networking site that went nowhere. Selling it for a tenth of their facebook settlement would have been an extraordinary outcome.

Why? Because startups run by non-programming business guys who hire a string of programmers who eventually quit and leave almost never succeed on facebook's level. Business guys like the winks greatly exaggerate the value of "an idea" and greatly underestimate way an idea can evolve into a new idea through implementation. They are almost always left in the dust.

Let me put it this way - if I went to a brilliant programmer with an "idea" - even one I had done quite a bit of implementation on, and he turned it into a multi-billion dollar company and offered me $60 million, I'd consider that a really good deal. Of course, that's not how this went down - the winks feel screwed because as far as I understand it, they kind of were. I'm basing this on the movie, so what can I say, no idea if this is true, but if I went to a programmer and he said, "yeah, I'm working on your site, I'll get back to you" over and over for a month, and at the end of the month he had launched a site that directly competes with the idea I thought he was working on for me, and then he told me bluntly and perhaps arrogantly that my idea was stupid and his was much better, and then used his advantage to beat me to every market, I'd be furious. I might be so furious that I'd be blinded to the truth, which is that I wouldn't have succeeded anyway.

I think the outcomes for the winks were

1) screwed and paid 60 mil
2) not screwed and paid probably nothing, maybe a small buyout nowhere near 60 mil.
This is exactly right. If they were real entrepreneurs, they would take the $20M and do something with it. These guys are zeros. I hope they wind up with nothing.
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Fantastic interview, but I see an uncanny resemblance to http://www.mixergy.com. What's up with that?
Isn't that part of the point though, that you as a fan don't really need/rely on Facebook?

The true failing of fb seems to be that in it's quest to be all things to all marketers, it becomes nothing to anyone. In terms of marketing, it still makes more sense to reach out through specialized channels where the focus and function are clearly outlined.
Not every factual statement has another side. Using two spaces after a sentence is an error in usage.
Let's suppose it's possible to tell that a keyword is spammy, what benefit does that provide? The person typing the keyword doesn't care if it's spammy, they just want useful results, quickly.

You can't just reverse the spammer's process, because it's a process followed by many legitimate, successful websites: Research keywords that drive traffic > produce content > build links > get traffic.
You're making way too many assumptions. You can't fire someone because a laptop is stolen or lost. The University should have provided a means of centralized backup for data.
I might be wrong, but in the case of String, not really:

http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/lib/string-methods.html
(I think I'm the he?) Happy to debate the merit of the tactics (though metrics & past experience suggest to me they are ineffective). I took issue with "small guy vs small guy". I have no large pie worth stealing, and neither will a competitor if they focus their efforts on my piece.

Also re: Twitter. I'd be thrilled if/when they roll it into the platform. I built Proxlet to solve a very real problem, not to build an empire.
If you read through the content you'll see it's not an attack. It simply addresses some major flaws in W3Schools as well as some sketchy business practices.
It's probably easier to give you some name suggestions than a list of a reasons why a name is or isn't important.
I voted you up, but I wanted to note that I (we?) have no idea how her department is run, and the negligence could rest as well in her hands as it could in her employer's hands. Another post here said "Blame the IT department for not establishing rigid policies." These sentiments are good, but...

What if the IT department clearly outlined policies for how to store and secure the data? What if the researcher is one of those "This is how I have always done it, and I am ignoring you" types? Given the kinds of data claimed to be on the laptop, it sounds like a personal laptop, not a locked-down IT-given laptop. What if that was the researcher's choice, the intentional ignoring of IT policies in the name of convenience or whatever?

Either way, the article's message is good: back up your important data. Whoever is to blame, the core message obviously bears repeating.
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1) Yes, they can. If they couldn't my DirectShow stack would need to be a lot more complicated. I have decoded XviD with DivX and vice-versa without hassle. Maybe this is to do with profiles or something? I am happy to believe you could encode something with one that doesn't decode with the other, but in theory and in practice it seems to work out in most cases.

2) My worry is how different these can be without causing problems down the line. VP8 as a specification seems comparable to early days HTML, whereas MPEG-4 part 2 or part 10 (h.264) is more like HTML4.
I know it is Spiegelman's father: it is a memoir of Spiegelman Sr's experiences, as told to Spiegelman, but that's neither here nor there.

The point is not that anyone is trying to find the positive side of concentration camps, as if such a thing existed. The point is that some people managed to keep their spirits intact, and, in the words of the poster above, find peace, meaning and value in their lives even in the worst condition imaginable.

Is it lame to remember that even when we can't control our external circumstances, we still have some ability to control our response to those circumstances?
Maybe. But a standard should be free from language-specific hacks and optimised code, VP8's "standard" is free from neither.
"But will we start banking in a Chinese bank? It's not as crazy as it sounds."

Hasn't HSBC had a fairly significant US/Canada presence for a while?
I think it's also a case of wanting to "get back" at Zuckerberg for what they see as a betrayal. Being born extremely rich and not having a multi-billion dollar corporation to run gives you a lot of scope to waste your enemies' time and money.
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You’re misrepresenting the data. Gas may have been $1.616 in Dec 2008, but it was $4.114 in July 2008, and ~$3 in Feb 2008.

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/23/news/economy/three_dollar_ga...

The price is volatile (especially on either side of a financial crisis).
You might need some design help. The site isn't clear on what the main core function of the web app is. I would consider putting the two screenshots on the front page of the app.
Hear Hear, true for nonprofits as well, in my mind perhaps even more so, as they exist for the public trust.

I got some fire and ire, restricting users software choices and tools, as it was a zoo before. It is too bad, I dont want to restrict anybody, but to maintain the integrity of the organization information, offer reliability and keep cost low, choices and policy have to be enforced.

Every desktop folder and user folder is synced to a server, restrictions on personal data stores are monitored, and enforced. critical data is copied to an onsite and offsite datastore. I am met with some dissatisfaction by more advanced users at times, but when their desktop/laptop gets fucked (3 year avg for laptop harddrive it seems) login on to a spare and having your desktop just the way you left it, is a huge relief for users.

and we are just a museum, we are not solving the worlds most dire problems.
What I do is to put a skill rating along with every technology on my resume to ensure that nobody gets the wrong idea and so I can quickly shut down any misunderstandings that arise.

For instance, I used PHP about 5 years ago for my first paid programming project, and have not touched it since. It's equally untrue for me to leave PHP off my resume (implying I have no experience) and to put it on unqualified (implying I have recent experience). I simply rate myself low (I think I'm a 3/10) and explain what that means if anyone asks. That way I can list everything I've worked with and would consider using again while bypassing any mismatched expectations early on in the process.

I've heard of some "standard" rating schemes, particularly one that Google uses, but I don't recall them off the top of my head.
I see no connection between rigor and monospace fonts. Where do you see it?
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First thought : if only the shop I work at did this .. I could use a linux laptop.

I wonder if people get to chose their OS under this scheme?
I'd only put a language on my resume if I was prepared to answer questions on it in the interview. It doesn't help you or the interviewer if you mention a language you hardly know.

Likewise, you could omit languages that you know well but don't want to use in your job.
and I'm guessing everybody on here has been doing that their entire lives as well.

I can tell you how everyone I know buys their electronics - they generally ask me what they should buy, or they buy the cheapest thing on sale at Walmart. I suspect my experience is not unique.

* but I will definitely be replacing my $500 phone within 2 years -- so if I made a marginal choice my "suffering" won't be so long.*

When I need my phone, I need my phone, so a software bug, or lack of support can have real consequences. A defective or sub-optimal TV is an annoyance. A defective or sub-optimal phone cam have life-alternative consequences. YMMV. And of course in 2 years, the entire phone landscape will change again!

So long as you avoid the complete crap stuff you'll probably be in the clear.

It's more than just avoiding the bottom of the line stuff - there are otherwise well-regarded Android phones that may not be getting updates. It's just one more headache to deal with in the decision matrix that I would rather not deal with.
You need a license to operate your car, not so with your PC.

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Some of your users might well be incompetent computer users and wont pass the "test".

I have often thought about why people dont do backups even when the new tools are easy for most to handle. I think the reason is psychological in nature.

Backup implies that you are at least cognizant of the impending disaster scenario. many people avoid even thinking about this, why think of bad news?. Engineers are accustomed to this way of thinking, its a different mental makeup, we shouldn't assume the general public shares this point of view, especially since most of the time they are led through their computing experiences by "wizards" and "guides" might as well be priests.
I've used two spaces for a while now. It just feels right that sentences have more space between them than "Mr." has after it.

But there's one annoying, persistent browser bug that cramps my style. If a line wraps after the first of two spaces, the second space will be on the next line, which looks terrible: http://i.imgur.com/MksV7.png
Using a bag twisty to hold a gate is considered _exactly_ the same as a chain and a padlock for the purposes of trespassing.

If it's clear to you that you aren't to enter my property, you don't enter my property and it doesn't matter how difficult I make it for you to do what you already know is wrong.

The issue here is the severity of the sentence, not his guilt, and especially not blaming the victim.
Meanwhile, http://consumerist.com/2011/01/vegas-atm-dispenses-gold-inst...
"Standard" is the key - I've seen more candidates who overrate themselves than underrate...

"Years of experience" isn't a great indicator either. The language I'm most proficient in today is the one I learned most recently.
You technically don't need a delorean, any car with stainless steel shell will work just as fine (paraphrased from Doc).
I know this won't be popular, but the whole idea of "diversification" has always struck me as a lame attempt by rich people (Stock brokers) to get more money from poor people. So I roll my eyes whenever a guy with a Rolex and a Porsche is telling me I need to "diversify"
Because spam is cheap and easy, far easier to produce than to fight, you can spam in your sleep with automated tools.

What you are saying is that that someone could algorithmically determine the profitable targets of spam. This opens the door to an economic hack of spamming. Simply run the same algorithms yourself, then if the spam-profit potential of a particular search is above a certain threshold, simply present a "hammy" search based on well-known authoritative sites.

This scheme would work, precisely because spam is cheap and easy.

Some people will spam your search engine just because you say they can't, and that kills your unique selling point straight away.

This only works against the scheme I just described if you can spam my method for determining "well-known authoritative sites." If you curate that, then you can't. What I'm advocating is actually switching between curated and algorithmic search depending on spam-economics. This means that spamming such a site might end up being equivalent to "internally spamming Wikipedia and StackOverflow." I don't think that's going to be viable to SEO spammers for going after an extra 1% income.
Besides, a researcher smart enough to cure cancer is smart enough to back up their computer.
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Not ASCII but Unicode: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/Zs/list.htm
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I definitely disagree here. There is always competition, no doubt about that. Doing the exact same thing like someone else is not an issue either. But the way I perceive the web to be is that actively engaging in the behaviour described is not something which creates an environment one want to do business in. There are certain unwritten rules I feel.
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You still pay more for less. Id argue that for a game you would want a good buying experience, and original box and stuff like that. That why people pay more fore Gold Editions etc. But paying more for just a download, i dont know...

Its not that its something you badly need like something to drink, its on the market for 3 years after all.
If you had just said "tl;dr", you might not have sounded as much like a willful ignoramus to those who might actually read it.
Nice one - I'm glad I'm not the only one where this type of shell sounds like a good idea!

I'd definitely like some clever types of history management. I've not looked too closely at those facilities in other shells (I would guess some of them have some cool ideas), but it sounds like we can certainly come up with some more!

I'm going to quickly lose track of this thread if I'm not careful. Do you use GitHub? Can you contact me there so we can stay in touch more easily, please?
Facebook PR claims deletions "work their way through" logs, backups.

cough