skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's kinda neat..undo doesn't work (in chrome w/mac anyways). Can someone enlighten me with some practical purposes for these sorta things? My imagination isn't working.
The explanation seems a little sloppy. If they used Markov Chains, then chains of length 1 is the same as frequency. A chain of length > 1 will be a slightly better fit.

They've generalized the model, and their generalization seems to work a bit better.
Getting an over view was the problem. The groups seemed to be isolated from each other, with their own agenda our theme. Maybe that's how it usually is.
To start with, maybe check "Silicon Allee". I think that is one of the biggest. They meet once a month in mitte.
Until they add Java support they shouldn't even be using the Eclipse name.

I know Eclipse supports other languages, but essentially Eclipse is the biggest Java IDE so announcing this web editor but avoiding Java support feels like they just picked the most easy thing to show off.

Syntax highlighting is easy. What I want is a Java editor with code completion, code folding and error highlighting/error stripe. Otherwise we might just use Emacs over NaCl.
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What exactly do we do then? We can't just back down.
Does this matter? Just let it slide, otherwise.
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What type of information density does "God" have?

None or infinite?
Or Raphaël
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What about performance in different browsers? For SVG, everything is smooth in Chrome, but Firefox is pretty much slower (I'm using RaphaelJS)
Bollocks to the idea that the authoritarians always win. Look at the French revolution, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, the recent Arab uprisings...there are so many, many examples in history where the authoritarians have been crushed by those seeking freedom. We just have to step up our game.

Furthermore, I see that as a fairly selfish attitude. Whilst I might have the ability to "escape", others might not, so I see it as my duty to fight for the freedoms of others to make that choice.
Someone (sorry for not noting your name) suggested dimming/graying the parentheses in lisp modes and gave this elisp snippet to do it. I find that I prefer reading lisp with dimmed parentheses.

(defface paren-face
'((((class color) (background dark))
(:foreground "grey20"))
(((class color) (background light))
(:foreground "grey70")))
"Face used to dim parentheses.")

(add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook
(lambda ()
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
'(("(\\|)" . 'paren-face)))))

I also came across a blog post[1] which includes a slightly more complete solution.

http://briancarper.net/blog/492/
Jesus, that's fucked up. My girl and I go protesting in London with the full expectation of being arrested (and we have been). It does add a layer of stress, not knowing where your other half is (police usually split you up), but we decide a meeting place and it's cool.
I disagree - many people don't have a passion - there is no driving thing in their life, even if it s watching TV or playing video games. From my own observation, many people go through life with a smattering of interests - but nothing that inspires them and truly grips them.

"Having interests" is not the same as "having passions".

But even disregarding that, many people do not understand creation. A passion for watching TV or playing video games maps poorly to someone obsessed with creating things - whether it's sculpture, software, music, or architecture. Personally I find it very difficult to identify with non-creators, while there is a very natural mesh when I talk with other creators - even if I know nothing of their craft. Their fundamental passion and mentality is mutually understood.
Aren't we depressed because we think better, rather than the opposite ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism
No, many languages have a grammar in order to reject malformed programs, so that not every sequence of words is a program.

AFAIK, you can define your own FOR loops in FORTH, but you can't enforce statically that each FOR has a matching LOOP; the mismatched program will happily run and corrupt the return stack (if you use the return stack top to store the loop index so that it will be available using the magic word I).
That would be an awesome thing to do. Call into question their certification, highlighting that they may intentionally be not swapping out the lenses. I wonder what the reaction at the top would be if they were to lose certification.
how do you need to plot them / what are the requirements.

I should do some more speed testing, but e.g. it's possible to get SVG to draw "markers" at every point in a single polygon, and fairly quickly in some renderers.
how quickly the world owes you something...

It's not about showing off, it's about releasing early and getting some users to start a feedback cycle. To berate them over using the eclipse name because it's not what "you" want is just petty.

The idea of a web IDE is still a new concept. And maybe some things aren't meant for the cloud. It's awesome that these guys are experimenting with the notion. How can you expect them to just release a finished (open source) product out of the blue?
The oldest was two years old at the time and likely would not remember it ever being any different. Not to say it wouldn't have been a bit awkward seeing the difference between mom and dad or comparing to other kids' parents as they grew older, but kids are resilient and I imagine they did quite fine.
In the UK the occasional sick day isn't usually subtracted from your holiday allowance

In Canada (& I assume USA), your sick leave is take out of your holidays?! Madness!
This is an interesting point. The www. prefix seems to be slowly fading away from the landscape, but URLs without the prefix never felt like first-class citizens on the web.

The inability to use CNAMEs in root level domains also affects other aspects, such as load balancing [1].

[1] - http://blog.y3xz.com/post/3920967238/the-anomaly-of-amazon-e...
I guess it's more ammunition to slowly pump into people that are still ignorant enough to believe that the government has their best interests at heart.
Yeah, this is it. It only takes one SQL injection for Sony to make the news these days. Just think about the number of web properties Sony has. I wouldn’t like to have to job of securing those in the first place, let alone with a bunch crackers with a reason to target you and the associated press coverage.

Not to say that this is good; it’s awful for your users data to be exposed.
>Personally I believe some things are better of being a desktop application

Pretty much this. Yes, this is interesting, and I'm sure it will garnish a nice user base. But I won't be one of them. There's nothing shown that makes me want to deviate from Vim + plugins to this.
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Seems to me that this could just be a reversal of cause and effect. Basically, short words more easily engender idioms containing them. For example, "It's getting late, wanna grab lunch?" combines a couple short words into two common phrases, whereas "It's mid-afternoon, I'm hankering for sustenance" does not.
Movie theaters made sense when televisions were awful and people needed an air-conditioned escape from summer heat. A modern home is technologically comparable and environmentally superior to a theater. Additionally, theater technology is now well beyond the comprehension or appreciation most theater managers. I've gotten headaches from blown woofers and glitch-filled digital audio streams. Complaints typically result in blank stares.

The only theaters I go to these days are those showing third-run movies while serving pizza, burgers, and beer. :-)
I think TPB got temporarily shut down in Europe.
Cloud9/Ace/SkyWriter/Whatever-it's-called-today seems like a much better implementation of this.
Isn't this what organizations like TechShop or Hacker Dojo are for? People who are serious about making things usually spend their time...making things, and it takes more than one day a year to do that. The role of Maker Faire is to get people interested; once they are interested, most people look for something a little more long-term.

BTW, both TechShop and Hacker Dojo were at Maker Faire, as were a number of other area organizations that make cool things.
That seems right, and makes the write-up a bit strange. They seem to be positioning it as if they're comparing two completely unrelated hypotheses: the frequency hypothesis versus the information-content hypothesis. But as you point out, their method of measuring information content (following Shannon) is simply n-gram frequency. The difference is that they set n=2,3,4 rather than n=1.

It's also not clear that it differs from the original motivation for the frequency hypothesis: (some) people advancing the "more common words are shorter" hypothesis come in part from something like a compression argument, that common words are short for efficiency reasons. Arguing that predictable (low-information-content) words are short instead is an interesting refinement, but not a completely different claim. Just choosing string length by individual word frequency is actually a sort of crappy compression algorithm, and this paper seems to show that English's built-in compression is better than that, and takes sequence frequencies into account.
At the speed of light, the latency impact of an optical implementation of the Fourier transform operating within the confines of an equipment rack should be negligible. In this case it sounds like they intend to implement the optical computation directly on a silicon chip.
i think the stories of cars being burnt in the east part of the city are a little exaggerated.
i havent really seen this type of behaviour in a long time.
I expect she ditched him for epic lack of consideration. He could easily have done the G20 work anonymously, but instead set himself up to be taken down as hard and fast as possible. And his excuse to her? It was security work. Seriously, who gets their woman terrorized by armed thugs and calls it improved security? She probably saw the writing on the wall and begged him to stop, and felt utterly abandoned and betrayed when he threw her to the wolves for what amounts to an idiotic PR stunt.
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Actually this doesn't apply to very small companies as far as I am aware. Don't just take my word for it, but I believe companies up to ~7 employees are treated differently..
I haven't been using f.lux since I learned about the flaw - it would only work with one of my monitors on Ubuntu Maverick (or Lucid, I don't remember now).

I'm now happily using redshift and it does work with two monitors.
On the topic of SVG and Canvas, I think it would be really useful if Canvas had a method similar to drawImage but instead could draw svg.

for example

var circle = document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/svg, "circle");
circle.setAttribute("style", "fill:green");
circle.setAttribute("cx", 50);
circle.setAttribute("cy", 50);
circle.setAttribute("r", 25);

ctx.drawSvg(circle,x,y,w,h);

I think then we could have the best of both worlds, define complex shapes in svg, but use canvas for rendering. The advantage over just using svg is that every shape is in the dom, so if you want to draw 1000 similar shapes the dom gets cluttered.
Since the process is 'optical' in nature, the latency will be very low. 'Almost' equal to the speed of light in this case. ;)
there doesn't seem to be a lot of startups going in Munich, but geez, I really prefer it over Berlin.
at the risk of sounding a little snarky, i wouldnt put too much stock into what the toytown people are saying.
the two main stereotypes who use toytown are probably not the best for networking and startup related interests.

but the disparate nautre of east/west berlin is one of the best things going for it. especially in the crossover areas like kreuzberg (not kreuzkoelln) and bits of mitte (that haven't been gentrified yet)
Whether what he did was legal or not, and whether it should be legal or not, what he did was clearly pretty foolish. A bit like kicking a hornet's nest and then being shocked, SHOCKED that some hornets come out and sting you. Keep in mind that police are not psychic. They don't know that this man in question had no violent intent. They can only know what they see and hear. And what they could see and hear did not look too good. Thus, the treatment.

Fair? Dunno. Wise? Hell no.
Nice that they're trying, but it doesn't do even the basic stuff that the last crop of in-browser IDEs did.

- open the page
- click to the end of line 15 (inside the try, before the return)
- hit ENTER

Expected: caret goes to the same indent level as previous line
Actual: caret goes to position zero

- type "obj"
- hit CTRL+SPACE

Expected: At least be able to autocomplete symbols from the previous line.
Actual: Renders a SPACE

In its current form, it's pretty much a TEXTAREA with syntax highlighting. To me, that says they released this to the public way too early. I think I'll check back in next year.
From what I understand (largely from reading the linked document) is that the employee is likely to have an acceleration clause of some kind that vests your outstanding options after a certain event happens. Common types are single trigger which occurs on change of ownership and double trigger that requires change of ownership and for the employee to leave the company.

There was also something about these terms being negotiated as part of the change of ownership but that kind of thing is completely beyond my knowledge.
Second life failed, in the sense that it never gained mass popularity in the same way that social networking did, for a variety of reasons.

i) It's mostly deserted

ii) It's not easy to find your friends, or people who you might want to become friends with. There are no friend suggestions or other mechanisms to encourage network effects.

iii) Commercial barriers are everywhere. If you want to do anything of significance, such as build a virtual house, you have to pay real money up front - and often not insignificant amounts either.

iv) The default avatars are unattractive, with poor animation. This might seem like a minor point, but I bet many new users have turned away from SL because of this.

v) New users are often subject to derrision or "griefing". The initial experience is typically not very enticing. I can attest to this personally.

vi) The user interface is awful. Recent version have improved, but SL still needs someone to redesign the UI to make it easier and more intuitive to use.
I use both. I create SVG files with Inkscape (if and only if I need to draw some complex shapes) and then I display them using the Processing language (the javascript port:)

http://processingjs.org/

The Processing parser generate (fast) javascript code on the fly the can be accessed from external scripts. You can mix processing with javascript.
Hm, I'm a lisp newbie but just had a little think about this (http://blog.timfarland.com/2011/05/12/lithp.html). I'd be happy just giving special forms short, mostly non-alphabetic names, and using a bit of matchfix sugar, looking something like:

(def map
(-> |list f|
(? (== list []) []
// (: (f (. list)) (map (.. list) f)))))
I'm working on a site that allows really simple encrypted messaging, anonymous event organisation, etc. If I made it available via phantom (or someone used the source code to set it up themselves), that would solve this issue.
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Might this be an argument for a new DNS record which acts like CNAME but doesn't have the restriction there be no other records for the same host? Something that functions like an A record but tells the querying software that it should use the IP address from the A record of the returned hostname. An "ALOOKUP" record if you will.
Apparently the Google Web Font team have been doing something to make the unhinted, open source fonts they provide display better on Windows machines, though I've not seen anywhere that they detail exactly what they do.

Probably something quite clever since the same team actually removes the hint info for platforms that don't use it to save download time.
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Here's a detailed write-up of some of the advantages and disadvantages of Forth and the philosophy that surrounds it:

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machi...
So you're visiting your parents for Thanksgiving, and you get a call "LATCH! there's some issue with the thingamajig that we deployed before you left, urgent fixed required or the universe will ... be okay really; but could you please look into this ? I'll make it worth your while."

The only tool you have at your disposal is your mom's ChromeBox, since you decided to "disconnect" for the holidays.

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In DE, ~everything~ on TV is in 'high level' German. Bah, we even dub every movie, special we-show-you-the-real-thing cinemas notwithstanding. Still, you have local dialects that are mostly used on the streets. Often these are part of the local identity, part of belonging to a place and people speaking different (even if that means 'correct') are easily identified as outsiders. I guess it's just a natural thing: I regularly hear people from the USA joke about southern/northern/eastern/western dialects as well - and Europe had a couple of years more to develop those.

Switzerland is a very specific case, I guess. The level of national pride is very high, with a very prominent political party living close to the racism edge (and crossing it every now and then), protecting the country from outside influences (contractors from i.e. Germany are not really welcome there, often seen as stealing jobs).

Add to this national pride a good amount of _local_ awareness: CH is a federal system, each 'state'(Kanton) fighting for as much independence as possible. Heck, they don't even have a real capital city [1] because they don't want one state to surpass the others. Your local region of origin seems to be much more important there.

In addition CH has 4 (erm.. 3.5?) official languages and already some 'borders' that separate parts of the country into ~mostly french/german/italian regions. You drive 5 min and every sign switches from German to French and the whole culture changes (food, lifestyle are the easiest things to spot).

1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bern
Honestly I've learned more playing around on my own than I did at university. Lectures really aren't for everyone, it's a really old-fashioned, outdated learning style. Whilst secondary schools have progressed hugely, university's have stayed with the sit their and suck up knowledge approach. Which sucks for me, because I learn by doing things. I guess I learned a lot from labs, and doing projects, which were awesome. But sitting there in a lecture just felt so removed from what I was actually supposed to be learning about. Combine that with ADHD and I don't think I'll be graduating in the next few months :( A lot is my fault, but I really can't stand lectures, unless the lecturer is exceptionally engaging.
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They should update their dev center docs with this! I just followed their own instructions to set up DNS, which are to put in the IP addresses rather than the proxy. Kinda funny this came up right after I did it.
It's based on pure Canvas so there are no other requirements. I am still working on the documents but the source code is commented well. Right now it creates scatter plots but I may add other types of plots later. If you intend to help it in your application, I will be happy to work with you.

You could draw SVG markers at every point but with the DOM and everything, it just becomes very slow. protovis (a great SVG based library) mention the number 10,000 points at which SVG starts becoming unusable. I am able to plot 25k+ points.
Yes, that'd be very useful as a built-in. In the meantime, you could use a SVG-on-canvas renderer such as:

http://code.google.com/p/canvg/
I have checked on Firefox, Safari, Chrome. It is just as fast on each, takes about 2 secs to plot 25k+ points.
I'd also expect SVG to be faster if you have a reasonable amount of shapes but only move one or two. In canvas you have to redraw everything yourself, with SVG you simply change the coordinates of the shapes you want to move, and the browser takes care of redrawing what is needed.
My expectation when browsing the web is that web apps open external links in new tabs, while mere web pages open links in the same tab. Unhelpfully, the line between "app" and "page" is fuzzy.
That's only true at a macroscopic level, though. If one wants to predict exact states of the universe, the complexity is proportional to the entropy of the universe.
Wow, the roadmap looks fairly comprehensive. It will be daunting task to write so much but then Andrew has been producing excellent content on his blog and I am hopeful this series will turn out to be one of the best startup resources on the Internet.

There is definitely lack of structured guide which talks about metric driven design, A/B testing, UX, marketing, user feedback and other non-technology/non-funding related topics.
nvm, I misread - they're only talking about subdomains and not the primary domain
Buy a pub. That's what I'd do.
All 3 formulas are equally true then. Occam suggests you use the simplest. Just like in programming, where one prefers to write as little code as possible.
What's the point in a random DDoS against Heroku?
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Some browsers can render images in canvas that are actually SVG files, but support is a bit patchy outside Webkit, and there are some other issues, but may work for you. http://www.svgopen.org/2010/papers/62-From_SVG_to_Canvas_and...
My first reaction was that this is a crock... after all, don't all the big hot internet companies use root domains? But I looked into it, and Facebook, Google, Apple (and Heroku) .coms all redirect to www. Only Twitter rocks the bare root domain.

I rely heavily on root domains in my printed materials (sending people to sproutrobot.com/water and such), but I'm starting to think redirecting users to www--so bookmarks, social media and the like point there and the majority of my users hit www first--is a good idea.
The trick is to oversimplify.