skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you will find your answer or at least some breadcrumbs leading to it in stillness.

Every time you're feeling the way you are, as I suspect your post was written in a heightened state of your emotion, drop everything at hand and go to a quiet space. Grab a cup of tea and just sit and look at the smoke coming out of the cup. Clear your mind and purge yourself of all negative thoughts.

I understand the feeling every well as I think many here will say the same. We all want to do a lot of things, and sometimes that myriad of "things" we want to do can get overwhelming. When it gets overwhelming, just drop everything and regain your footing. I do make it a point to do "nothing" sometimes :)

When I say stillness, I really mean it. No computer, cellphones, electronics nothing but your collected self and perhaps a cup of tea. No watch either. You are the master of your self, space and time. Everything is as you say and execute.
I find that they're surprisingly responsive when you post something to the forums on aws.amazon.com. Try posting there and I bet you'll have somebody from Amazon requesting they PM you within a couple hours.
why was foljs comment killed at 2 points? looks like how he characterizes hn is true:

2 points by foljs 52 minutes ago | link [dead]

HN is not really a good place to post this.

Here the audience is mostly aspiring "entrepreneurs" dreaming of making it big, so they are tied to the rat race and take all the "american dream" BS to heart.

Apart from a statistical insignificant minority that will "make it", the majority can always come back to it in 10-20 years, when they are bitter and wised enough.
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> You mean other than seeing it happen in the biggest similar ecosystem?

It's being noticed in the biggest similar ecosystem, too, so by that logic it should be noticed in both if it is present in both.

> Exactly. So why should iOS be different with regard to malware then?

The Apple review process is present in iOS. The process to market is markedly different.
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Plus it is always available to watch the following day...last time it was up in a matter or hours.
Re. stuff like Con Kolivas, etc. I recommend listening to this talk: http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fosdem/2011/maintracks/kernel-deve... - it gives some real-live perspective on issues of not-accepted modules.
> and more verbose.

I meant less verbose, of course. But it's too late to edit.
Wikipedia entry is quite good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
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Ohh I see. That's awesome, thank you very much! I'm more of a Python guy but I might just use this for my next project anyways - I'll be sure to let you know.
I had this feature in mind since I started working on this, and it's definitely what I will implement next. I will also add the ability to resize the grid to fit some of the larger patterns.

This will probably require a rewrite of the current "nextGen()" algorithm, perhaps a quadtree implementation in Javascript or implementing some of the optimizations suggested in Chapters 17 and 18 of Michael Abrash's Graphics Programmer's Black Book.

By the way, you should post some of those MIDIs!
They do static analysis of your executable and check what you call

Doesn't Objective-C have dynamic binding? I'm sure you can determine what function to call at runtime, which means you can always get past a static analysis.

I can think of literally dozens of things they can look at

I can think of literally dozens of ways any analysis can be subverted. Even dynamic analysis wouldn't work in case the thing uses a timebomb or even something simple like downloading data from the internet (apps do that right), and sending in a special payload that instructs the application to do something evil once you reach, say, 1,000 users. Apple wouldn't test your application by installing it on a thousand phones, would it?
One image is inline, the other is a conventional file. I wonder why.

Oh, and it validates indeed: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.google.com/nota...
Does every browser support base64 encoded images embedded in css?
Dyna Blaster/Bomberman clone written in YUI3 using canvas
Free Dyna Blaster/Bomberman clone written in JavaScript, using YUI3, HTML5 canvas. Currently it supports 2 players game only (hot seat), with bonuses like: kicking bombs, additional bombs, power, speed, etc. Source is available on Github: https://github.com/qoobaa/bombs
I think we're likely to have wearable computing before embedded ones. I won't complain about being wrong though!
top_14_scientist = ["Albert Einstein", "Sir Issac Newton", "Nikola Tesla", "Gregor Mendel", "Charles Darwin", ...]

top_15_women_in_tech_history = []

for x in top_14_scientist:

top_15_women_in_tech_history.append( "woman who banged/married " + x )

top_15_women_in_tech_history.append("marie curie")

#Just kidding
The licensed some of the camera technology from there. Most of the body tracking software was done in-house.
Throttle requests (maybe at the IP level) for the prototypes, but resell hosting. Redirect your third-level domains transparently for the hosted sites - make it dead easy, just a matter of clicking a box to "add public hosting". Then keep the prototype there as the testbed for new development, with a button to "Click to publish".

That will take you, what, a whole day to set up? It's a no-brainer.
Let me replace the word computer for desktop/laptop if that helps you understand my point.

Don't get me wrong; I think there will still be developers using a laptop/desktop - I can't imagine trying to develop using an iPad. However for the average user do they really have the need of a desktop/laptop? For most people I would say no and ultimately it makes their lives easier.

I'll see if I can find the article where Jobs was saying that basically he saw the way computers [read desktops/laptops] are now as a dying market and the iPad/mobile market was the future. Maybe my statement was pushing it too much but the way I read it I think not.

Anyways my main point was that I just wonder if they are trying to push the iPad cycle too fast. Where in the subsidised mobile space it makes sense; will it make sense for tablets to be changing every 6-12 months?
I don't know, they always get criticized for it only working in Safari.
It got mine wrong.
That's one of the goals of the Clojure team. While the main 'branch' targets the JVM, there is also a branch targeting .NET. And there is an initiative, Clojure-in-Clojure, to de-couple the main branch from the JVM as much as possible, to facilitate re-targeting.
Clojure's primary target is the JVM and they had an officially supported CLR(.NET) branch for a while (and it's now supported by a 3rd party https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr). I wouldn't be surprised if in the future portability became a bigger concern within the Clojure community (http://blog.n01se.net/?p=41).

(That said I realize you were looking for a Common Lisp, but sometimes good enough is good enough ;) )
Link is broken, should be http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/03/02/announc...
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I don't think the older ones do; however, I'm sure Google gives them a different 404 page (change your User-Agent to IE6 and see how different the search results HTML is).
`//www.google.com` will automatically translate the url to http/https depending on the requested protocol.
Almost every browser. Guess which ones don't.

(I'll give you a hint: It's MSIE 6 and 7.)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme#Web_browser_sup...
This was a great post. Situations like this are a big challenge for any startup: on the one hand it's a huge opportunity, on the other hand you want to stay focus, and on the third hand you want to listen to your customers ... I really like the way they're approaching it with an open mind, working with Q42 and asking broadly for feedback.

And it's an intriguing tool, too. One of the other impressive things about this post was how well they spotlighted their customer Q42 and their customers' client bransomcompany while also showing off their own product to good advantage. I signed up, and I bet I'm not the only one :-)
A part of me is sad about this. The old page functioned just fine and acted as a relic of the old Internet. I thought it was kind of cool how they left it alone, especially since it served it's purpose just fine without costing anything. Not that I'm denying it was ugly as all hell :)
Funny, with http://www.webpop.com we've kinda run into the opposite dilemma.

We're building a fully hosted CMS, with redundant, load balanced hosting, custom data types, generic non-branded client interface and so on.

But during our beta period we've discovered that it's also just about the easiest way we know to get a quick prototype or experiment online.

Now while deciding on our pricing, we get into a dilemma. If we go with the typical per project pricing model of most other hosted CMSs, aimed at agencies, we wouldn't really make it viable to use Webpop for quick experiments, prototypes or mostly static pages.

So now we're pondering if we can come up with a set of plans that supports both ways of using Webpop...
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Via pattern-matching at the moment:

X foo: Y := ...
X foo: Z := ...

Both of these are inserted on X, which is used as `self` in the method body (so instance variables, etc. work as expected too). It's one method, `foo:`, which pattern-matches on its arguments to determine which branch to evaluate.
Clearly, the best way to prevent applications you don't want running on your platform is to prevent applications you don't want running on your platform.

The problem comes when the user's opinion of an application they want is different from the platform's opinion. Apple's approach doesn't prevent malware, just limits it to installs by exploit - jailbreakme.com was a very public example of a webkit exploit (I assume) - and there have been plenty of others, including currently active ones.

On the other hand, applications that will play by the rules only have the official platform to go through. This means that while malware can and will get through, user desired applications like functional alternate browsers, flash and alternate mp3 stores never will.
You could also use: http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp
how do firefox and chrome do that on unix systems where you've installed them initially by a precompiled package which put the binaries in /usr/local? you wouldn't have permission to update anything there, especially without a dialog box.
Absolutely fantastic! I've never seen an interactive game of life before. It's a revelation. To be able insert a single pixel and see what happens is really, really cool.
+1, Chris did a great job and was a pleasure to work with!
That's only the hardware. The software was developed internally.
Take some time to forget about being productive and be creative.

Draw a picture. Bake something delicious. Write a poem.

Then share it with someone.
But you were being honest in your use of the API.
The mobile team was right... in 2005. In 2005 even subsidized smartphones were at $399 and capacitive displays were still a tad too expensive.

Even in 2007 when Apple shipped the iPhone, MS probably couldn't do the same thing with the exact same device. Apple was buoyed by their consumer hardcore base, which MS doesn't really have. And given that MS already had another mobile OS that seemed more feature-rich, I think the msPhone would have had trouble in the marketplace.

The thing that Jobs has seemed to have nailed is timing. Maybe his experience with Newton left a great impression on him, but he seems much more cautious in bringing things to market (I know that it almost seems like the opposite). He put the iPad on hold and moved it to a phone form factor. That was genius. An iPad in 2007 flops. In iPad, after 3 years of the iPhone, redefines the market (in part because the phone requires you to make a consumption device -- which then feeds into your tablet strategy).

I don't think this is so much a question of what did MS miss, but rather what did Apple get right. Because frankly, no one else other than Apple got it right either.
Awkward verbiage.
There were never any MIDI files, the notes were generated as raw bits and sent straight into ableton live, which is a full blown software music studio. The notes then drove a softsynth which noodled away over various drum loops playing in live.

Because I had no desire to work out how to send clock data back from live into my hacked bit of ruby code, I simply sent MIDI clock signals from my code along with the note data. This meant that the iterations of the GoL were controlling the speed of live's sequencer.

As my code was very naive, it simply did its calculations, sent the notes and then did sleep(0.5) or something, then started the next iteration. This, along with ruby's garbage collection meant that the time taken for each iteration, and the delay between each MIDI clock signal, varied considerably.

All of this added up to a situation where the master clock in live was constantly wandering up and down by about 20bpm either way. Now remember I said that live was playing the drum tracks underneath? Live timestretches audio to the BPM of the master clock, so the whole track was constantly wavering in tempo. The whole thing sounded like an early 90s warehouse party aboard a pitching and rolling ship. Which is incidentally how I usually feel at warehouse parties.

At some point I plan to post the music with the code to my blog, along with all the other wacky shit I did at uni.
As someone who is not exactly in the know about this subject: is there a cleaner way to write this stuff, or is that the usual way to do it? (I can write nasty Perl, but choose to write pretty Perl, because I like my job. What would an APL user do?)
if you need geolocation information through javascript, you can use maxmind's free one:

http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js
The biggest problem I've seen with performance reviews is that most managers spend very little time working with or observing their employees. Couple that with performance review processes that don't actually measure results and it's a wonder anybody knows anything.

I was once a manager at a medium-sized consulting company. I had an employee we'll call "Roy." He was always involved in the critical parts of large, profitable projects. He generally got 3.5 to 4 out of 5 in his peer reviews. There was another guy, "Jim." Jim was mostly on smaller, simpler systems and maintenance work. He generally got similar scores in his peer reviews. For their first performance review, I gave Roy a 4.2 and Jim a 3.8. Roy got a 7% raise and Jim got a 5% raise. Later on, I was the lead dev on a project with Roy and Jim as my team. Once the project got rolling, getting Roy to actually produce code was like pulling teeth. I talked to the other leads and found out that Roy talked a good game in front of clients but required a baby-sitter to actually get anything done. He was always on the critical components not because he was a great developer, but because the lead or architect was already paying extra attention to the critical components and could more easily manage the babysitting. Jim, of course, got all his work done on time with minimal fuss and even stayed late to finish some of Roy's work.

I went back and looked at those peer reviews... Roy's lead dev had given him a review that averaged to 3.5. The soft skills were mostly 4's, the technical skills were mostly 3's and 4's. (He was an OK developer when you actually got him to work.) My only clue would have been a 2 in "Works Independently." Jim didn't have other devs on his projects so he had Project Managers giving him 3's and 4's for soft skills and 4's for technical skills.

A poorly designed performance review was actually worse than no performance review.
All of foljs's comments are dead, starting 47 days ago. Most likely the automated filter believes he is a spammer. Or perhaps moderators killed him for trollish behavior (I don't know if they do this or not, but I know the spam filter occurs).

It has nothing to do with whatever he posted in this thread.
http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...

It is a part of tasks for iGoogle.
Works in VLC on multiple platforms, if you know the workaround:

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/01/can-you-watch-apples-key...
Engadget live blog: iPad 2 event
Wow... I didn't expect these sorts of tabloid headers to occur on Hacker News. That's usually a Reddit thing.

Shouldn't Hacker News be a cut above, where people first read and understand an article, and then post it to HN with a succinct, relevant, and most importantly TRUTHFUL title?
Another followup on why restaurant websites are so bad
Turning into a hacker aged 27
Maybe that logo is used elsewhere, and there's a high likelihood for that logo to be in the user's cache.
Plus, he has perhaps the coolest tripod ever!
Creative Constraint: Why Tighter Boundaries Propel Greater Results
A pie chart that actually works
Cool URLs don't break.
The Fight Over HTML5
The other image, the logo, is probably generic enough that it's used elsewhere and a user is likely to have it cached. The other looks bespoke for this page, so wouldn't.
PragPub—March 2011
yea typo in the title !!1,
Ofcom wants to ban misleading broadband speed ads
Plenty of Dijkstra's points remain relevant today. My favourite (and I completely agree):

"Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer."
Testing for Web Services
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I prefer the relative concision of "concision" (9 chars vs. 11).

Eh, that's my cute answer. I really just think "conciseness" sounds awkward.
Once the project got rolling, getting Roy to actually produce code was like pulling teeth. I talked to the other leads and found out that Roy talked a good game in front of clients but required a baby-sitter to actually get anything done. He was always on the critical components not because he was a great developer, but because the lead or architect was already paying extra attention to the critical components and could more easily manage the babysitting.

And none of this came through in the peer reviews, beyond the 2 in Works Independently? I think the review system here broke down in the peer area - no one who was working with him was communicating the vital info on this one, beyond just numeric scores.
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Not sure if the title is indicative of the tutorial's true usefulness. The information on asynchronous function calling alone is worth the click-through.

I wasn't aware of any of the three javascript packages (are they libraries? frameworks? seems like they're not really), and anyone looking to improve their asynchronous javascript writing skills and readability should take a look. The author admits that debugging could be an issue since these packages all generate new javascript from your current code, but the concepts look very promising.
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I have a 5th generation iPod that I've had for ages - I still use it for audio and video (through an external device) even though I have an iPhone, an iPad and an Android phone.
Good problem to have!

Have you considered a separate "prototyping" product, with different branding and pricing? It could potentially reach a very complementary audience ...
Is it 1999 all over again?
I think it's intended as a joke.
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Would be funny if it were @paulg. Or the guy behind @MayorEmanuel...
The suggestions from others here could work for you, too. Maybe you could offer "Webpop Jr." with severely limited bandwidth or a banner at the top. It might even be advantageous to make Webpop Jr. look like its own domain/application to differentiate it from the main product.
My first visit was in January 2003 (I was studying at UNC-Chapel Hill at the time), and it looked like a neutron bomb had hit the centre of the city. If you'd told me then that seven years later, I'd be getting married in the open air of the city centre, I would have laughed in your face. It has improved hugely, and yes, there's still a-ways to go, but I'm looking forward to being there for more than a month at a time! (not a paid shill on behalf of the Durham Tourist Board, I assure you! :))
Bonus points for the use of a placekitten!
I really like the interactions. I created an HTML5 Game of Life example using Canvas and Web Workers several months ago.

http://twoguysarguing.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/html-5-game-o...

http://benjaminplee.github.com/HTLM5-GoL/

I was planning on adding interactions like yours but never got around to it. Nice work!
This is great! Simple, Straight forward and easy to use. A nice compliment to the the desktop utility (HTML5) at http://workola.com. I'll add this link to my desktop.
> Doesn't Objective-C have dynamic binding? I'm sure you can determine what function to call at runtime,

You need a message name (@selector), and the names are strongly typed -- meaning, they're pretty obvious with reflection tools. If there's a way to send a dynamic message without putting a @selector in your code, I don't know it, and I'm willing to learn.

When you start talking about the POSIX layer and stuff near the bottom (C), traditional wisdom applies there: what does your app link against? If you're linking against the dynamic libraries near the bottom of the stack and walking their contents (to avoid putting a string in your binary of what you're looking for, perhaps?), Apple's probably going to check that disassembly pretty heavily.

> Even dynamic analysis wouldn't work in case the thing uses a timebomb

You keep on writing time bomb as if it's some magical device that circumvents all security. A time bomb needs a callback in the binary, and Apple's going to wonder why your app registers a timer for a specific date. This is what you don't seem to get: Apple has a disassembly of your entire binary, and they can see when they run it that you register a callback for December 2012. Where does that callback go? Code in the binary.

Same thing with your 1,000 phones case: clearly something needs to count, and the obvious candidate is a Web server of some kind, and then the app needs to actually do something if the response comes back as 1,000. Which means that code needs to be in the binary.

Or you need to download code from the Web server to execute. Which is easily detectable by Apple, and you'd never get approved.

> something simple like downloading data from the internet (apps do that right)

You will be rejected if it's used as any part of execution, and they can (and do) check that. If you even touch APIs that try to sneak data into executable pages, I bet they'd terminate the app in record time.

Trust me, they've thought this through. The reason that I asked if you're speaking from experience is because you're making a lot of FUD claims which are easily fixable. Seriously, buy a Mac and try doing something malware-like with the iOS API. Then try submitting it to Apple. Otherwise, you and I are both bags of hot air, theorizing about hypotheticals.
Solium Infernum is awesome. Fans of strategy games should definitely check it out.
Each of the actresses highlighted is Jewish.
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Okay change the cookies to percentages of an expanding and contracting pie. I enjoyed Ayn Rand's novels but they are as much fantasy as Lord of the Rings.
Agreed. Extremely interesting and useful ... and not at all what I expected from the title!