skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your warez? What is this network, some sort of pirated software from 1997?
Cross-browser, non-blocking web workers, even in IE
I truly believe these girls are just trying to sneak into that demographic and gain more (followers, fans) attention.

I hope this phenomenon evolves, such that some of those people create beneficial communities. "Geek chic" is intellectually bankrupt. "Geek" is on its way to being intellectually bankrupt.
In my experience for a man, calling yourself a geek is sort of a reluctant self-deprecating admission whereas for women it's actually a hidden brag, code for "I have interests that go beyond gossip magazines and reality shows"
A typical day of air traffic Each dot represents an airplane [video]
Genetically engineered biofuel bacteria
That was my question, too. There doesn't seem to be a disambiguation that would apply, either. "Greek Language" shouldn't point to "Indo-European languages", it should point to "Greeks". I can't figure out how that went wrong, either, but it is interesting to see a cycle in an acyclic graph. :)
They're scanners that email the scans to an email address. Or have a small http file server you access to get at the scans on the machine. Otherwise I can't really think of any other simple way to do it.
Is DNA computing going to terminate Internet banking?
And then an FPGA guy walks in a bar and...
portage on gentoo has this kind of functionality, although it needs to be enabled by the package, producing multiple 'slots' which can each hold a different version of the same software. GCC by default works like this, as does python between major versions. It can also do compiling from git although I don't think it keeps the build files around, but with ccache you can somewhat mitigate the recompilation time.
This is shameless and despicable. I'll go out of my way to never buy anything from them ever again.
Phish is worth giving a listen. I've loved it for years and have always had a tough time introducing friends and colleagues. It is extremely rare to hear phish on the radio which is a shame. They provide uplifting and positive music. Long live phish!
Is this what you were talkingabout?

http://about.me/offers/cards
OK, thanks! That's valuable info.
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch: “Emotely was kinda cool”
Mozilla ponders the ultimate minimal browser, looks like your start menu
http://www.menuetos.net/
Sheep Sprite Sheet for Farm Games (Iphone,Ipad,Android )
Enabling the surveillance society with cell phones (2007)
3 Things You Should Start Tracking to Improve Your Software
With 50,000 Cat Videos Online, How I Get Anything Done
I doubt they care if a single user is stolen from rapportive. There are a massive number of gmail accounts and all of those people that have never heard of rapportive will now have a new feature they may benefit from in some way. For the small percentage of gmail users that have heard of rapportive and have chosen not to use it for whatever reason (trust/security) we also may see some rapportive like benefit. While this is clearly inspired by rapportive I can't imagine the goal was to steal users from them.
Does the shebang count as a line of code? github counts it ...
I had a project/startup working on dealing with link rot for a while. It would not just tell you a link was 404ing, but recognize when the content of the page had changed significantly and let you know. The fun part was to automatically recommend a good replacement page from within the site, nearby, or the internet archive.

Based on a quick test it seemed that it would take an site owner about 5-10 minutes per link to find a good replacement once they knew it was broken . That's fine for a personal portfolio with 50 links, but for a site like Boing Boing getting all the broken links working again looked like full time work for a year.

I'm curious if you have many outbound links in your 'scalable content'? Do you spend much time maintaining them?
When will the media learn. Hackers ∩ Crackers ≠ Hackers
Yes, indeed. That is a nice graph, and in absence of a mechanism that would explain why no link can last longer than 28 years it should quite convincingly show that linear decay has not been established.
Yeah, but I've heard it so much it's lost all value. Nerds aren't just people who are hugely passionate about something, they've also payed a price for it in the form of missing out in 'normal' social integration.

Nerd/Geek are exclusionary terms, you can cherish the upsides all you want, but without the downsides they're meaningless and lose all their power.
Well, that post ended suddenly. All I got was "Hacker News doesn’t create sustained traffic" and "Capitalize on hitting the front page" (conveniently, both in huge text). Everything else was fluff.

It seems like you were headed in the right direction with the stadium pitch bit, and you told us that Mint blogged about financial topics, but you failed to provide a solid set of marketing ideas. Should startups email bloggers? Join relevant forums? Participate in Twitter and Facebook? There has to be more to it.

I appreciate what you're going for, but I've noticed that much of your content (blogs + videos) just barely scratches the surface. Dig deeper.
While this is true, it's important to note that you need to know a lot about how a modern process works to do this.

I once looked at the possibility of optimizing the byte code dispatcher for a javascript engine (Opera's old one), and my 386 assembly skills were far outdated: Removing one seemingly useless instruction of the ~10 core assembly instructions actually slowed the whole thing down. (Unfortunately, I have forgotten the details)
The comments here seem to be overwhelmingly positive, but if I were to use this routinely doesn't it mean that not just my search information but also my financial information is available to Google to analyze and/or sell to advertisers or make available via backdoor APIs?. Google already has a lot of information about a lot of people.
Nope, I live in Toronto and don't use transit enough to justify a monthly pass (I just carry 2-3 tiny tokens in my pocket), and don't make unplanned outings to bars. In case of anything, I'm rarely more than half an hour away from home in any case.

I guess most people can't or won't match my case, but I just wanted to highlight that carrying ID doesn't have to be a necessity.
This is a great point; see also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2589331 The big thing about that article is that the tracking capabilities come from things people actually want in their devices, not from nefarious schemes to follow people around. And most people aren't going to inquire about the larger purposes to which these technologies can be put.
76% of all statistics are made up.
Yeah it's bizarre to hear people say things like "I'm a huge MMA nerd." What?
I gotta disagree with the comments that Rapportive doesn't have anything to worry about. This is completely a "good enough" solution. Additionally, with Google building it in house one of the largest acquisition targets just fell off the map.

I'm a Rapportive user but I do think they have a lot to worry about.
Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare
I find myself in a situation where my political-economic philosophies and my individual/corporate rights philosophies have put me in a situation where I feel like my candidate pool is an empty set.

If I favor the first, I'm more beholden to my corporate overlords.

If I favor the second, the country's spiral towards bankruptcy will speed up.

If I find an independent who feels as I do, my vote will be effectively wasted.

Nothing quite like feeling completely disenfranchised.
I guess this is a staged rollout, as I can't see it on any of my accounts? (Including a corporate one)

Also, how does this affect the positioning of adverts that currently fill this space?
I never passed a judgment on all Post-Soviet citizens and was merely stating a fact as you did about black persons in the States. How is my observation any different than yours? Seems like you're taking this way too personally!
Are french fries from France?
What motivates Randy Komisar?
"Geek culture" has become just as shallow and brain-dead as all the other stuff it used to make fun of. Play video games and wear thick rimmed black glasses? Well apparently you're a geek now!
99.99% of the time a scanned document is fine.

The checks you write are scanned and destroyed. Good luck arguing that the scan is not a valid representation of the original.
If you're using a programming language other than Java with Storm, you simply include those files in the jar that you submit to the cluster. For example, you would put your Python processing code "component.py" in the resources/ subdirectory in your jar (A jar is basically just a zipfile).
I wonder if Facebook could actually become too big.
If everything i write into Facebook will be read by friends, bosses, grandma, and father-in-law, i will probably write nothing or only simple jokes.
So there might be a point, where everybody has a Facebook account, but nobody uses it anymore.
This might be counter by introducing more controls, but that complicates the interface.
Giving it free to startups is not just "good faith" or "do good", "hire better" etc. it's getting user hooked up to the software, long term investment and almost free word-of-mouth marketing.

FC knows that FB is a tool that will show itself after a long time (hence 45 day) trials. When we start using FB our company was only 2 people now we are 9 and also we are a paid customer of FB.

For these reasons I don't want to believe that FC is not using channels like SO,Joel's blog as a marketing tool. That would be a waste of awesome free marketing.
GMail introduces People Widget
"Did this story feature a theft?"

No. If the government had the right to sell the damn park and had done so transparently, then that was not a theft no matter how you spin your scenario.

In fact, as a person whose family is ostensibly in such bad straits that they would undersell promising stock in Exxon-Mobile by 50% for food I'm probably not all that interested in whether Yellowstone national park remains open.
Windows Phone Mango Feature List
Chinese Prisoners Forced to Play World of Warcraft
I have never understood how those seizures could not be unconstitutional. The laws shouldn't exist, but if they do, the people enforcing them should not be receiving the benefits for enforcing them.
I admire Bill Gates but I think bringing him back is a bad idea. He's so much more valuable being outside of Microsoft.
I'm starting to wonder if the increasingly awkward framework of IP law isn't being used by unscrupulous lawyers to snooker otherwise intelligent clients into thinking they have legal claims to recompense that the law doesn't actually support.

In truth, the principles and practices governing these branches are remarkably distinct from one another. My suspicion is that the 'IP Law' umbrella has become a handy device for the kind of legal weasels who would let their clients believe they're more interchangeable than they really are, and that abusive tactics permissible in one area can be easily (and profitably!) adapted to the other branches.

Presently, trademark law seems to be the most sensible and least problematic of the three branches. Copyright law is bad and getting worse, while patent law is already an off-the-deep-end horrorshow. It's discouraging to see the rot spreading to the TM sphere in the way it seems to be here. But kudos to the TPM folks for turning this into an opportunity for gleeful public mockery. It's a surprisingly effective counter to hubris everywhere.
Developing for BlackBerry in 50 Easy Steps
Agreed-- they didn't even bother to change the name. That to me just seems like the ultimate insult to the designer. After some quick Googling, it looks like they've been doing this for a while now, too. Definitely never buying anything from them or their other retail brands again.
There is no completely accurate way to identify that subset other than asking every visitor for what country they reside in. To avoid ever violating this law, you would have to implement the changes for all visitors.
Designing/dev at a popular restaurant guide and mobile app. School loans paid off by my wife and I working full time and only living off of my income.
Amongst the many doomsday scenarios we hear about all the time, I notice that people often miss how rapidly we are developing our ability to 'hack' cells.

Given exemplar bacteria in the Gulf that both consume and secret oil it seems a modest step to a bacteria that does this on command with various precursor agents.

In the referenced article the scientists are finding ways to make post processing simpler.
And yet HN explodes with hate whenever Archive Team does something.
Oh, I don't think their intent was to steal users from Rapportive, I was just speculating on how this feature would affect Rapportive.
Nationalization:

Government takes X$ from your pocket to buy asset A of X$ value.

Privatization:

Government sells asset A for X$ and gives you back X$ (in the form of
cutting taxes or spending it somewhere else).

How is this theft? If I had to pick, nationalization fits the definition of theft better than privatization.
I think this is why the study of Personal Development, or just in general examining your life is so important. Think of how big an impact these realizations can have on your life. Now imagine having one of these moments every month, or even every week.
WebFilter, chrome addon to help you focus on production
One week ago I saw a guy's post here about hacking /etc/hosts file to block social networking sites to keep him in production. Now I made a browser extension to filter out all social sites, porn and spyware sites to help myself. The app itself cache the top 10k sites from alexa top1m sites, and I put the rest of 90k in my amazon EC2 server which makes the extension performance better.
Bank of America (from their purchase of MBNA) does as well, though possibly not on all cards.
Interesting that they link to a definition of spam which is 'both unsolicited and bulk'. The vast majority of people I know who are militant about spam focus solely on the unsolicited aspect. I guess spam is still in the eye of the beholder. ??
I apologize: I often use quotes to mark imagined dialogue. The first was supposed to be read as counter-factual: if a hypothetical person had done that, then yeah, it would make sense that having private domain registration could possibly tip them over into a penalty. I'm working on the assumption that you didn't do that, which means that I very much doubt it was the causational element in your case.
What's the litmus test for being a "real" geek?
Here it is:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejgfoklefkbjadjcgj...
I understand that, I'm not suggesting they magically beam NFC hardware into existing handsets, but that they ought to have prepared things a bit better beforehand.

They could have some NFC peripheral that can plug onto existing handsets to extend them the functionality.

In the FAQ, they mention nothing about how they will support other phones in the future or have any expansion plans. They say only that it works with the Nexus S. I'm a bit surprised that more phones haven't been released with NFC hardware as the Nexus S has been out for ~6 months.

With such a small userbase, something like this will be dead in the water unless they push hard and try to get more widespread adoption.
I wouldn't use an alternative simply because all my "friends" are on Facebook. I don't want to run two social network accounts.

What you need in order to allow "competition" is to have some form of interoperability. E.g. Twitter API allows lots of companies to write Twitter apps. (Of course, now Twitter is trying to take control of all that.) E.g. how in Apple's iChat you can use AOL Instant Messanger, Jabber, etc. and talk to users of iChat or those other services. (I use Adium to put all my IMing in one place, and that includes Facebook connectivity.)

So, if Altly can scrape Facebook so that by being an Altly user I can have both Altly and Facebook friends in one interface, then I might consider using it. (Still has to have a better interface and execution.)
Way to alienate hot girls.
This is the first time I've heard of Rapportive, and I'm finding it pretty useful so far.
If nothing else, these articles about the new Gmail feature gives them some publicity.
Totally agree. I just question whether the channels for follow-on at the post-incubator stage are growing in proportion to the number of incubators popping up.
The referenced page is more interesting than what the title promises. The title is trivially true, the referenced page makes the stronger claim that a compiler can not _tie_ with hand-coded assembly.
That's true. The second one might be better written as:

def __init__(self, shapename, **kwds):

Or, in Python 3:

def __init__(self, *, shapename, **kwds):

(making shapename a required keyword-only argument)
"when an SSR started transitioning to a liberal democracy"

When USSR started transitioning to a banana republic that has to import its bananas from Finland.

This is how it was in 90-s.
I've written an XML to RTF converter using XSLT 1.0 (does CALS tables as well!) back in the day at the place I still work at.

The pain!
As a vegetarian, I totally support his decision and respect it.

My meat eating friends like to call themselves carnivores, I usually correct them and say they are actually scavengers.
Is College (Finally) Ready For Its Innovation Revolution?
To echo a common opinion, I think the world needs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation more than it needs Microsoft.
It also means when you drop your phone in the snow because you're drunk you will be locked out of... everything.
> you can cherish the upsides all you want, but without the downsides they're meaningless...

So you mean my mad coding skills are not enough; that I also must be borderline obese, never wash my hair, and don't know how to act around women? I have a problem with your statement.
I've found that printing places have industrial shredders. And going paperless like this has a high initial load (lots of paper) followed by low load (incremental). If you are just dealing with the first surge then consider asking a Kinko's or equivalent like place if they will shred it for you.

There are also professional shredding services that might give you a one-off deal which will be less than an industrial shredder.
Protons and neutrons are not spheres exactly. They are made of 3 quarks and have a structure.

Electrons are point particles - they are true 0 dimensional objects - they have no size at all. However they do have an equivalent wavelength due to their mass, and they have an area of influence.
Thanks for the feedback guynamedloren. I'm still experimenting with what kind of articles work the best for TSF, so I sincerely appreciate your thoughts.

All the best.
It seems to me that this is more of a complaint leveled at C-ish compilers. One could envision a language that makes the sort of structures that baffle the normal compilerore visible and amenable to optimization. I'm not sure if some syntax and some clever semantics could address all these problems, but...

When I was first learning C formally, I had this idea that C was the "fastest language". My instructor said, day 1, that the problem with C was that it was not amenable to optimization. It was pretty surprising, but as time goes on and languages, compilers, and interpreters get better I think we'll see this sort of problem more and more.
New People Widget in Gmail adds context to your contacts
Don't care. Not one bit. More concerned about Facebook's privacy policy.
That gives two infinite families. However, those families contain more examples than your process generates, there is another infinite family, there is a sporadic, and I have just been shown another example for which I am unsure if it is a sporadic, or one member of an infinite family.

Not only do I not know everything, I truly don't know very much at all.
I did this (also with a scan snap) and its been great. One of the things I really like is taking back issues of magazines, pulling out the two or three articles I'm interested in, scanning them and then tossing the issue.
Why doesn't a point make sense in QM? Electrons are point particles - they have no size at all.
You might want to start with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_weather_prediction

You say you want "some good papers", but I think you need a book, not an article or articles.

It's a big field, very broad, very well-developed, and quite technical on many levels (physical modeling, numerical propagation of PDEs, filtering/data assimilation). An international cast has contributed results and ideas for decades.

You might be able to find a survey article, but such an article would tend to be written for specialists. It tends to look like this:

http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~inavon/pubs/Springer_book.pdf [PDF]

The current state of the art in NWP is probably the ECMWF:

http://www.ecmwf.int/
Read article, then comment.
Patio you're obviously a good guy and my sincere apologies for taking your comments the wrong way. It was immediately after I had pre-breakfast coffee which usually puts me on edge and makes me type before I think. Sorry mate.
Last year's goal was to "learn chinese". I can't imagine him "learning" it in a year.
Doesn't that lead to a lot of overhead? If i have a hundred friends and i broadcast a message, then the message must be encrypted a hundred times with each friend's public key.
The restrictions really affect cookie based traffic reports (so use weblogs or image beacons instead), A/B testing preferences, accepting money from advertisers to track visitors through your site.

The article says that anything which you could use instead to get basically the same end result a cookie, but which technically isn't one, is still covered by this legislation. If so, you would need to get consent for non-essential image-beacons as well, or weblogs(?) or whatever else you chose.
Actually ALL mater is nothing.

In between atoms is nothing. Inside atoms (between the electrons and the nucleus) is more nothing. Electrons are point particles and have no size. In between the protons and neutrons of the nucleus is nothing. Inside a proton are quarks, and between those quarks is nothing. Quarks themself are point particles and have no size.

So in total 100% of matter is empty space.
I don't know if his views on this issue completely line up with the prevailing sentiment here, but this is the second time in recent memory that Sen Wyden has acted to bail out the internet as we know it in the US. If the issue is important to you consider taking a minute to contact his office to express your opinion or even donate something to his campaign.

Contact form: http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
Campaign: http://www.standtallforamerica.com/contribute/

For all their flaws, politicians are much more likely to pay attention to issues when they know an engaged audience is watching.
Hardware Vendor Offers Backdoor with Every Product
How can the google wallet site not use sprites for the navigation images? http://cl.ly/77E8

Oh, and the links don't work when you click on "How it works" http://cl.ly/76Vv

TIL I could work for google.
Boris Wertz announces GrowLab a new accelerator in Vancouver & SF
I don't read into this that the author is suggesting that Bill come back and he would just scrap all the existing products. As you mention, Microsoft doesn't need to scrap it's existing products.

But they do need a technologist at the helm, and that just isn't Ballmer's world. Bill wanted tablets years go, so he made the Tablet PC. He saw the future of online collaboration, and bought Groove Networks (which brought Ray Ozzie as a side benefit).
These were clever strategic moves done BEFORE anybody else was really thinking in these terms. Balmer isn't able to be the first mover because he doesn't have the vision.
Agreed.

I'm currently working on a small project to replace Google Custom Search with a proper Apache Solr set up. Unfortunately the project manager heard at an SEO conference that Google punishes you for using competing in-site search products.