skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is thought provoking. I'd say genius is a habit. The habit of thinking about things most people don't think about and thinking about them in ways most people won't think about them. But I believe anyone can acquire the habit with practice. The reason few people do, is that it is risky. Unless the individual is extremely socially adept, this habit is social liability. Why, by definition the habit makes you odd and most of us want to 'fit in.' So we tend to think about things the same way as our peers.
One of the most effective things you can do when building a house to save your own life and property is to install a fire sprinkler system.
It's very likely they would if he asked. Celebrities and business bring huge traffic to Twitter and it's in Twitter's best interest to have more of them sign up. Some might think it's also in their best interest not to screw their users, but sadly it appears Twitter is moving towards Bieberfest as opposed to meaningful conversation. How many Bieber fans care if your name is taken from you?
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agreed, here. DocumentCloud integration makes sense, and it's been something we've already been looking into at The Bay Citizen.
It depends how many apps you're competing against. There's hardly any apps for development/coding, so if you publish something half-decent, your target audience will know about it. Of course that target audience will be much smaller than that for 'social games' or whatever. To publish a social game app, unless it falls into a readily identifiable niché, then it could languish in obscurity regardless of quality.
It certainly is if all you want to target is Microsoft platforms.
Designing your sign-up pages
So, if the user experience changes with the next version of windows, how would that make a difference?
I was right with her until I got to this sentence:

"She plans to buy tickets to a Lady Gaga concert with the cash that she earned for her trouble."
A strong math bg necessary for computer scientists?(CS professors' perspective)
Review My Startup: clan.cx, fast StarCraft 2 clan hosting
I left my job 9 months ago, took 5 months off, and worked on clan.cx for 4 months. I got the idea for after reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=423249: the author started a WoW guild's hosting site, and was profitable right away. I made a rapid calculation and though that a site to host StarCraft 2 clans could be a viable business.

The site is still pretty minimal, there's a forum and people can import their profile from Battle.net. I try to keep the site fast, I think speed is the most important feature for a web app whatever its function is.

I didn't accomplish much after 4 months, I've spent far too much time working on sexy things like a Redis ORM in Python (to be released soonish).

If you want to try it out, you can use the staging site http://dev.clan.cx/ --the database is reseted once in a while, It wont keep you personnal information, or http://clan.cx/ if you plan to stick around ;)

1. How would you charge for this? I was thinking to charge around $10/month for up to 50 active users, and $25/m for unlimited users + custom domain + other goodies.

2. I feel that the site is empty and lack features. Maybe that's because I've been working on it for so long that I lost some perspective. What do you think?

3. I'm planning to promote the site by posting on forums. I think I could also sponsor some events, players, & casters to promote the site. Any other ideas?
Or bookmark it!
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This particular article actually seems to focus more on the seawalls designed to protect from the resultant tsunami.
Cloth diapers
Although Sproutcore and Rails seems to be geared towards different domains(and seem complimentary to each other); the comparison was quite useful because of the simple way it was explained.
Hmm - never heard of Reeder so I checked it out. What would you say the primary advantage of this app over Google Reader? I really think that Google did an excellent job with the mobile UI. Are you using it for it's offline capabilities?
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Something I've been wondering about is why Angry Birds has under 100 reviews while Smurfs Village has over 1200, many of which are nonsense like one which was a 5-star review that said only "ok". I know some apps do a better job at encouraging reviews, but the sheer volume and garbage quality of many of the reviews makes me wonder if they're offering in-game rewards as payment.
On a semi-related note: apparently simply refreshing your browser increases the view count. I had gotten excited for a minute!
Plus, decent building codes can actually enhance overall efficiency. Lots of things in the code don't really "cost" anything. They just enforce hard-won "it's best to do it this way" knowledge that, shockingly, many builders are oblivious to. Think of things like hurricane straps or nailing plates that cost nothing compared to the materials and labor that go into a typical building. Baking some minimum standards into the law saves us all having to become experts, or hire our own experts. And not having the neighbor's roof fly off during the next hurricane and block the road is just gravy.
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Uh... are you asking me to... hm... exercise my... um... empathy?
The Human Connectome Project
For at least a year there have been mobile broadband deals that come with a free netbook in the UK.
Python aside, could you give us a couple of examples where a development would be made complicated by Drupal but would be easy on Armstrong?
sometimes it feels like we are in illusion about "free" stuffs in internet. Google, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook or whatever.. everything they claim to be free.. they cost your time, they change your mindset, they change the overall you. Nothing is free here, its hardly convincing - yet we just embrace so called free stuffs even without a single thought. More pathetic thing is - these free services don't care who you are - they are just doing their business.

what would have been your decision in such situation if you were Twitter Inc, i am just curious ?
This was the argument used for years for switching to linux/mac and no matter how true it was at the end of the day people don't care that much as shown by the vast amount of XP users that are around today.

You need features. Tell people that Farmville requires a mac and after a decade of XP they suddenly will have a mac.
I've done some renovation work on old buildings. I recommend removing ALL of the old wire. There's nothing like looking at a shabby old wire and wondering if it is hot or not. Even worse, sometimes an idiot will try to reconnect that old wire, yes, I've seen them try it.

Rip all of it out.
Before content farmer doomsday:

I would find a jQuery plugin that's actually small, useful, and without 100+ custom attributes. I love it and didn't bookmark it thinking that Google will give it back to me again.

Next time I search using the exact same keywords, I got: "Top 25 jQuery plugins blogspam you never heard about!"

Google failed to deliver THAT plugin that I searched before.
IPhone Devs, don't put your private keys for push notification in your webroot
id software Rage HD and engine would now have been as easy to port to iOS if it wasn't for OpenGL.

Maybe technologically DirectX is ahead but platform support and inclusion is the reason it is not winning on mobile.

Also WebGL is coming and OpenGL ES 2.0 for mobile and web will be a very similar platform.

Where is DirectX for the web and mobile in that aspect? And why doesn't Carmack try to port Rage to WIndows Phone...
"Remote clients will connect to a local proxy server that compresses the window updates (VNC-like) and sends them over the network to a proxy client that decompresses into the appropriate buffers."

By that definition everything is network-transparent. Can this do caching of glyphs? Images? All the lessons learned from X and incorporated into NX are ignored. NX is actually usable across high-latency, low-bandwidth links. Streaming bitmaps aren't.
Not as far as I'm aware of, though in some countries the authorities have some oversight of names, so you might be stopped from naming your child Pepsi Microsoft or other silly things.

More to the point, there are laws governing what names you can trade under. For example in the UK I think (this isn't my field, info could be wrong/out of date) sole traders and partnerships can legally trade under a personal name - so if your name was McDonald you could run a restaurant under your real name, but you'd probably have to be careful to always carefully list it as J. McDonald (London) or similar to avoid infringing McDonald's trademarks.
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That was definitely worth saying. Most people don't know the back story. I didn't know the details either.
How SoundCloud bootstrapped
If you transfer carriers they're actually required to let you take your number with you, at least in the US.

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/NumberPortability/

Now you are paying for the service and if you stop paying for service it can go to anyone, but that's not the carrier's decision. Telephone numbers are federally regulated.

The Wikipedia article on telephone numbers also suggests that the bureaucracy managing them tries to avoid reassigning disconnected numbers if those numbers are still receiving regular calls. And this makes sense, since people receiving messages intended for someone else is bad for operators, and bad for the users.

As others have noted, there may even be regulations [1] that apply here, though Twitter seems pretty safe from a legal perspective, even if ethically they're in the wrong.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00002511----...
Why?

Yes VNC sucks, but MS Windows isn't inherently network transparent, yet remote desktop on Windows provides an absolutely awesome end user experience. It's fast - even over relatively slow connections, it's easy, it even includes sharing of clipboard, sound, drives, and peripherals. And you can easily disconnect/reconnect session.

Everything about the user experience with Windows Remote Desktop is better than any X server implementation I've ever seen.

What would be lost by implementing something similar to Windows Remote Desktop on top of Wayland?
What I want to know is the cost to be in the top 100 if you purchase installs.
use private/public key to login!!!
I'm going for it if he accepts me. I have some basic training experience in the Canadian Army(bum ankle). The chance to fire an AK and make a little cash while sailing around that part of the world...hell ya.
Somalia is the antithesis of a libertarian country.
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This article provides a very good insight into what makes someone a genius (and certainly it is not just the talent). I think perspective/vision is a key thing here, combined with passion and hard work.
There's a saying that the fire code is written in blood. Generally, most of the regulations are there because when they weren't, it resulted in some disaster that cost lives. If it didn't, there wouldn't be the political will to incur greater cost and complexity in construction.

That doesn't mean that the codes shouldn't be updated / refactored once in a while, but that's a pretty difficult thing to undertake, and there may not be political will...
This may work fine on a dedicated gigabit network, which is where SunRay lives, but it does not work at all on a slow, possibly high-latency, link. To see for yourself, try running any gtk or qt app over an ADSL link or even a local wireless network, and enjoy the slide-show. Apps using server-side font rendering, on the other hand, work nicely under these circumstances.
Isn't this just pusherapp.com? (not trying to be snide, just curious)
Because it's really not much of an advantage. Seriously.

When it comes to a AAA game the big three sellers are Xbox, PS3, and PC, in roughly that order. Two of those use a D3D API that's very similar and PS3 uses something called GCM[1]. All of these have vendor support and tools that leave OpenGL, on any platform, in the dust. For example: in PIX (D3D Debugger) you can actually click on a wrong-looking pixel and see everything that contributed to its rendering. It's freaking amazing.

Developers who are investing millions of dollars in making a game will generally be picking at least two of these platforms, usually Xbox & PS3, or Xbox and PC. Even if the game was PC only, or PC & PS3, picking OpenGL means you're leaving a lot of productivity on the table over the course of your development lifetime.

But here's another reason - if you later decide that you want to release an iPad/iPhone/Android version of your game, or build something for these platforms using your engine, then porting the rendering code that draws meshes or sprites[2] is going to be one of the easier parts of that process.

The hard part is figuring out how to reimplement features that lack hardware support or performance on the new platform. Even if your original engine was built using OpenGL, the chances are you'll be writing whole new code paths for something like shadowing anyway. The "write once, run anywhere" theory behind OpenGL is largely a myth when it comes to shipping anything of complexity on two different platforms.

[1] PS3 does/did have something called PSGL that had an OGL-like API, but it's performance is poor and no one uses it. Back in 2006 there was even something of a developer revolt when it looked like this would be the only available API. Wii's graphics library, GX, is similar-ish to OpenGL but with lots of extras. Ditto DS/3DS. PSP and NGP use custom APIs.

[2] If you've put any degree of thought into your engine, all of this code will be in a separate lower level driver-like layer that can be reimplemented for new platforms as needed without changing something like, for example, the code that draws your HUD.
I don't disagree in principle. In practice: how did they manage to start their own daemon on a port sshd is already bound to?
Why do it on wasteland^W Wayland and not on X?
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Having a train or bus ride be a significant part of your commute would help significantly. I plowed through books when I used to ride the bus to work (and that was only a 20-25 minute ride), but now that I bike I haven't been reading nearly as much.
My apologies if my last comment read that way - I did not mean to lump you in with conspiracy theorists. I often see people trying to read between the lines in NYT articles, not just in regards to current events and political viewpoints but even in the Styles or Weekend section (perhaps I read too many NYC-focused blogs).
Leaked version of 'Son of ACTA' - 'full of awful ideas'
I will check them out. I'm not affiliated with them.
I've got a theory about ideas/inspiration. Basically, if you ask a question that has no follow-up/dependent questions, then magically your brain will supply the answer (in a short time-frame). You just need to drill down to that terminal node. Most people stop further up the tree. In fact usually you're not trying to find answers, just to learn something that's already documented. Perhaps also you need the sister/cousin nodes to be in place/known, so that when the idea comes you get that final-piece-of-the-puzzle 'chink,' the Eureka feeling. Granted I've never worked on deep research problems but whenever I need a good new idea to proceed, it tends to come easily. Just by identifying where the missing link should be, you are gifted what it is.
Good explanation from Microsoft re: mobile OS updates
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Tsunami in the midst - are you prepared?
New tools to make sure your loved ones are safe during an emergency.
This is only an issue if you're using password authentication and do not drop traffic on ports on which you are not running services.

Just use Single Packet Authorization, people.
Here's the paper that led to Sun Ray:

http://labs.oracle.com/features/tenyears/volcd/papers/nrthcu...

http://labs.oracle.com/features/tenyears/volcd/papers/Nrthcu...

Their argument is "A simple pixel encoding protocol requires only modest network resources (as little as a 1Mbps home connection) and is quite competitive with the X protocol."
One thing the comments here haven't addressed is how Twitter's behaviour in this case compares with how such things have traditionally been dealt with on the Internet. I think there's a reasonable expectation that big Web companies act in a way compatible with the rest of the Net even if they are for-profit.

Consider the Nissan Computer Corporation website: http://www.nissan.com/

Or read about when a company called GAIL tried to take gail.com off a woman named Gail: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/decisions/html/2006/d2006...

Now obviously girl-geeks is not a personal nickname, nor apparently was it previously the name of any sort of registered company or other entity, more of an ad-hoc sort of thing. Given that someone later formed a company with this name and trademarked it, should they get the rights to that Twitter name? Would they be able to take girl-geeks.com off a previous owner who was using it in good faith?

My suspicion is that they wouldn't, and Twitter's behaviour is bad netiquette.
What? You just push something through WebSockets and blindly eval() it?

This is going to sound snide, and I'm really just confounded... what was "created" here? What is there to "announce"?
Look at the laws of Hammurabbi or Moses, the ancients even knew this. Building codes are an important part of developed society and this situation would have been significantly worse without a stringent set of codes.
You'll have to reboot the Linode to change the root password from your control panel. Do not use passwords to auth over SSH!

Use ssh-keygen to generate a key and copy the contents of the .pub to your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and disable PasswordAuthentication in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and /etc/init.d/ssh reload
Just take a page from the book of Resig and force a constructor, http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/#36 :

function User(first, last) {
if ( !(this instanceof User) )
return new User(first, last);

// constructor logic
}

Or a more robust slightly less "performant" version:

function User(first, last) {
if ( !(this instanceof arguments.callee) )
return new arguments.callee(arguments[0],...);

// constructor logic
}

Note: arguments.callee is less "performant" than using a named function, but it does allow the 2 lines to be copied and pasted without alteration.

Also, in case someone mentions it, arguments.callee is not deprecated (arguments.callee.caller and Function.arguments.callee are though). Documentation:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Functi...
I read this in high school and a few times since. It should be required reading, and it's a shame it's not in print any longer. (last I checked)

At first blush it's a standard communism vs. capitalism / freedom vs. security hero story.

What I'll never forget about reading it in high school is that after we were finished reading it, the professor tried to get us to consider the story from the "evil" perspective, and that the society really was much better off with a lack of freedom. "Read it again, it does NOT end happily..." my professor said.

And it's true. If you haven't read it and considered that the author perhaps sided with Wei and the programmers, give it another read.
Good Stuff. I had a chance to be early in on a startup that was spun off the company I was working for... Seemed too risky, too much work, besides i was comfortable. A few years later those early start up employees were all millionaires. Big mistake. One of the few things in life I'd change if I could. Of course it could have been different, they could have gone broke, but they didn't, and I missed it. Don't be me. If you get the chance, go for it.
"A pixel copying protocol" would describe VNC and RDP as well, wouldn't it? By running any GTK / Qt app over ADSL you mean running them using the X11 protocol?
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I use Chrome bookmarks and they sync to Google Docs... I'm not quite sure why they don't sync to Google Bookmarks. Nonetheless, I'm pleased with it as I'm on multiple systems and I still have my bookmarks built into my browser. Added bonus that when I start to "search" in the url/search bar, it brings up relevant bookmarks.
Currently reading Pournell/Niven's "Lucifer's Hammer" right now. This was an excellent companion to it.
Great idea to have built-in expiration/deletion of social content you want to keep private.
Rovio just released another update, app store defaults to show reviews only for the most current version.
The vendor collects the sales tax from the customer, and then (a month later) reports it to the government and pays the government back; but the only sales taxes that a vendor owes are the ones it has collected (or, in case of a dispute with the govt, the ones it is assumed to have collected).

If for example a customer buys but does not pay, then the sales tax associated with that purchase is not owed.
It's in Twitter's every right to do exactly what was done here.

However, it does make a twitter @name a whole lot less certain though.

It would be in Twitter's best interest to have a policy for disputes so there is no uncertainty.
so the correct answer is that this one was 1000 times more powerful than Kobe, and also very shallow (depth of 24 km), but fortunately offshore (but unfortunately that means powerful tsunami).
I'm assuming this answer from the Wayland FAQ is what you're looking for? http://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_6
If you let the best chips win, that means US chips win — probably forever, since Chinese companies can't afford to invest the required R&D to catch up unless they get government subsidies.
Overnight success generally takes around ten years. First the person must become an expert. When you first start practicing a new skill set like playing the piano, you may be able to play, but you have definitely not reached your potential. Within a couple of years you are more competent but there are clearly people better then you. At about the 8-10 year mark, you are then an expert. There may be people better than you, but there shouldn't be a huge difference (of course this depends on the person).

Taking ten years to make it as a performer or a even a craftsman is pretty common. Rovio clearly earned their success.
You would be far more surprised if Google took away your username than if Twitter did. That's the point. Twitter should be held to the same standard that we hold Google to on this matter.
I do have a FB account, but even I have stopped frequenting Techcrunch since they made the switch. For some reason, I just don't want to comment using my FB account. And no, I'm not a comment troll.
too early to jump to any conclusions. in case of radioactive leak the area affected will be million times larger than any refinery fire.
Any chance of a brief explanation which doesn't require either (a) signing in with Twitter, or (b) watching a video?
I get the sense that the person who wrote those the original article that this story replies to didn't care that they were misrepresenting the studies, because they care more about the political implications than science.
You can always add specific functionality to the javascript to handle specific commands. What was created is a nice example of how to integrate websockets with a message q into web application. It also lets you push ANY javascript via redis to anyone's browser. The concept has lots of potential. I'd like to see more widespread use of websockets. I believe projects like this can help get the ball rolling.
2nd update: Despite the emergency coolant, pressure in the nuclear plant is going to be released soon which will result in a radiation leak. 3000+ people who live within 3 km are being evacuated.